This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 111 Part 2 that begins with:
The perfections of God.
Great is the Lord; his works of might... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc aaaa dede cfcf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010001 10010101 011101 10010111 110001 10010001 110101 11010001 110100 01011001 010101 101100001 011111 11110101 100101 11010101 0101001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his are repeated.
The author used the same word great at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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