This is an analysis of 51 Psalm by Thomas Parnell.

Look mercyfully down O Lord
& wash us from our sinn…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXdedbfXfebgbhXebaiaiheaeceXeXXagadedXjXjbfaf
  • Stanza lengths: 48,
  • Metre: 11000111 11011 11010101 010101 11011101 110111 10110111 11101 11111110 111001 11011010 10101 11111100 001110 11111011 11101 11010111 11011 1011001 11111 11110111 111111 11110101 110101 1011110 001111 1111010 011101 1101101 110101 10010011 01111 11010111 110110 01010111 10111 0111011 101101 111101101 111111 01100101 111101 00110100 110111 1110011 011111 1011101 0101101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 48

Repeated words/phrases

from, my, thy

Anaphora

me