This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 105 Abridged that begins with:
God's conduct of Israel, and the plagues of Egypt.
Give thanks to God, invoke his name,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcbc dada dede XcaX cdcd dddX bXbX FEFE g cdcd bdbd hdhd hihi jdjd fEFE X adad gaga jiji XcXc dadaXFeFE
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101010 11010101 110101 11010101 111101 01011101 110101 01010101 010111 110101101 110101 11010101 110101 1011111010 100101 101011011 0101010 11011101 010101 11010001 010101 11010101 010101 11011101 0101100 101010111 110101 01111101 1111010 11011001 110101 101111001 1011001 11 11010101 110111 10111101 100101 11110101 1110001 111111001 011101 11011101 101101 11010101 010111 11111100 011101 100101011 111101 11110111 0100101 010100111 110111 11011001 110101 101111001 1011001 11 10010101 110101 11010111 111101 01011111 111101 10010111 0100111 11110001 010101 110010111 110101 1101111 010101 11110111 110100 110110101 010101 10010101 110111 11011001 010101 101111001 1011001
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Psalm 105 Abridged;
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