This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 121 that begins with:
Divine protection.
Up to the hills I lift mine eyes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbbb cccc ddee ffbb ddgg aagg hhcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010 10011111 101010101 11011101 11010101 11010101 11011101 01011111 10110001 11111111 01011101 11010111 010101101 10010101 11010101 1101001001 01110101 11111111 10110101 11111101 100101011 11110101 11111101 10010101 011101001 111101110 101101010 10110101 11110011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; he, no are 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 121;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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