This is an analysis of the poem Psalm Ii: Why Did The Nations that begins with:
Why did the nations join to slay
The Lord's anointed Son?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebX acaX fefeXbaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 010101 10110101 110101 01110101 011101 11010001 111101 101110101 111001 11110101 1101010 101111101 011101 11010101 0101100 01110001 0100101 01010101 110101 01011101 101111 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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.
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