This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 149 that begins with:

Praise God, all his saints or, The saints judging the world.
All ye that love the Lord, rejoice,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbc bded fgfg dada eaea eheh aiaiXeaea
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 111011011001 11110101 111101 01010101 010101 01010001 111001 11110101 110101 01110001 110101 01110101 010101 11010011 1010101 11010101 111101 10111111 111101 11010111 010001 11010101 110101 101011101 110111 11110101 101110 11010011 110101 01010101 110101 11010101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; their is 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 149;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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