This is an analysis of the poem O That The Lord's Salvation that begins with:
O that the Lord’s salvation
Were out of Zion come,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca dede fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101010 010101 0101010 010111 1101010 110101 0111010 010101 1111010 110101 1101010 010101 1101010 110101 1101110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 106
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
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