This is an analysis of the poem Psalm that begins with:
It is a light, that the wind has extinguished.
It is a pub on the heath, that a drunk departs in the afternoon....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXdXcce cbfagcfch ccXcegcac hahccdcceXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 00011011010 00011011010100101 00010111011010 000111111001 011110001110 01001111011 01011110 010111010111010 0100101111101 0110100101 11001010100101 010101001011100 110100100101001011 0010100110101010110100 00110011110 00111011100101010 101000110010101 011010101001001 01100101011101 100010011001 0100101000111000010 01110110111101101 0010011001000110 0100010011010101001010 01000110111011010010 1001001001011110010111 110100110111010110111010 0011011111010101 00100010101010101 0110110101 01111001101 110110011 0101010011101001011 100111011001 101100111001010 001010101001 100101001101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
- Average number of words per stanza: 80
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, that, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Psalm;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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