This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 125 that begins with:
The saint's trial and safety.
Unshaken as the sacred hill,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abXb acXc Xcbc XdXd Xeae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0110110 01010101 111100 11010111 111111 11111111 110101 11010101 1100101 11010101 010101 01010101 010001 11010101 110101 00110101 111101 10111101 101101 01111101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 21
- 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; as is repeated.
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- summary of Psalm 125;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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