This is an analysis of the poem Psalm Cxlviii that begins with:
Come, oh! come, with sacred lays,
Let us sound th' Almighty's praise;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aAXbbbbbcc ddeeffgghh iiggaaccjj kkllggddll hhjjllmmaA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 11111001 1010110 1111100 101001 001111 0110101 1111101 1010101 1110111 1111111 0110101 1011111 1011001 1011101 1110001 11100101 1110101 11101010 11101010 1110101 0010111 1010101 0110001 10101010 0010101 1010101 1010101 1110110 1010101 0011101 1010111 1110101 1010101 0010111 1011101 1110101 10101011 1110101 11110101 111010110 10101010 1011111 11101100 1110101 1110101 1010111 0010101 1110101 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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- summary of Psalm Cxlviii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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