This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 77 Part 2 that begins with:
Comfort derived from ancient providences.
"How awful is thy chast'ning rod!"... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabX bcbc adad bebe fefe bgbg ahah bibi bbbbXibib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101000 1010011010 111101 11010101 1100011 11010101 011101 11010101 110101 10010101 010101 11010111 110101 01001101 010011 10010101 010111 10010101 110111 11010101 110111 01011101 010111 10111101 011101 11110101 111101 10010101 111101 11010001 111101 11010101 110101 11010101 1100001 011100101 101101 11010001 111101 10110101 100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 41
- 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; his, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Psalm 77 Part 2;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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