This is an analysis of Psalm 74 by Isaac Watts.
The church pleading with God under sore persecutions.
Will God for ever cast us off?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Xbcb dede dfdf ghgX bibi jdjX aiai fifi f gXgk hXXe ihih jdjd ijij dfdf dXdk ececXeded
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 0110011011010 01110111 011101 01010001 010101 10011101 011001 11110001 111101 11111101 011101 11011101 010111 11110111 1110001 10111101 1100110 11010101 110101 111101001 1000101 01110001 110011 10111110011 1101010 11010101 110001 110101011 1101111 11010111 11011 11010111 010101 1 11010111 110110 11011101 110101 11110111 1101100 11110010 110111 11100111 010101 11110111 110101 11010101 111001 01110101 110111 01010101 010101 11110101 110101 1111011001 110101 01011101 0101001 11010111 1101010 01111101 011101 11010111 111101 11010101 111101 11110011 111111 11110101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 19
- Lines: 70
Repeated words/phrases
thy, and, our
Anaphora
thy, shall, and
