This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 107 Part 3 that begins with:

Intemperance punished and pardoned.
Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcc bbbb bbbb ddee ffcc aagg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100010110 11110101 01101100 11110100 01001101 01010101 11010101 110101011 11011101 010111001 01010101 10010101 11010001 11010101 01110101 11110111 11000101 110010101 11110111 01010101 11010111 11010101 01010001 11110101 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, to, so 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 107 Part 3;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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