This is an analysis of Psalm Iii: My God, How Many Are My Fears by Isaac Watts.
My God, how many are my fears!
How fast my foes increase!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb defe cdXd gfdf aaba gdgd bhch aifi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110111 111101 01010101 111011 01010101 1101010 11110101 1100010 11110111 110101 11011101 111101 11100101 110101 11110111 110111 11110111 010111 11110101 110101 11010111 110111 10111111 110011 01110111 111101 11110101 111101 01000101 010111 10011101 110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
my, and
Anaphora
shall
