This is an analysis of the poem Psalm I: The Man Is Ever Blessed that begins with:
The man is ever bless'd
Who shuns the sinners' ways,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbc daXa eaea cdXd dada bXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 110101 01110101 110101 110101 010101 01010001 110001 110111 010101 11010111 011101 1101001 111101 11111101 010101 101101 011101 11011111 010101 111101 010101 11011111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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