This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 122 that begins with:
Going to church.
How did my heart rejoice to hear... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aXaX bcbc dada cccc cece fgfg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001 10110101 110101 101011101 1101010 11011101 010101 11010111 010101 10010101 010101 01010101 110101 11110101 110101 01010001 110101 10010101 110101 01011101 000101 11111101 111101 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, there are repeated.
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- summary of Psalm 122;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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