This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 139 Part 3 that begins with:

Sincerity professed, and grace tried; or, The heart-searching God.
My God, what inward grief I feel... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb ccdd cceeXbbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010001111101101 11110111 101010110 11011101 11010101 11110111 01010101 11011111 11010001 111111001 11110111 01000101 11010011 11010101 11011011 111110011 11101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.

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