This is an analysis of the poem Praise The Lord, God's Glories Show that begins with:
Praise the Lord, God’s glories show, Alleluia!
Saints within God’s courts below, Alleluia!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101100 1011101100 1010101100 1111111100 101011001100 1010111100 1011101100 1111000100 1011101100 1010011100 1111111100 1111101100 1110111100 0010111100 1111101100 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; alleluia, god, s, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words praise, all are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines alleluia is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word alleluia at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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