This is an analysis of the poem Psalm Xxxiii: Rejoice, Ye Righteous that begins with:

Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord,
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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd aaaa bebe fafa ghgh aiai jaja ckck icic lalaXcici
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110001 010101 10010101 110111 01010100 111101 01010101 010101 01010101 010101 11010001 110101 11010101 010101 01011101 111101 11000101 010111 11110101 111001 11010101 111101 01011101 101101 10010101 110101 11010101 111101 01010001 101101 11110101 111101 11110101 010001 11110001 101101 10010111 011101 11010101 011101 10111111 111101 01010101 011101 11110101 111011 11111111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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.

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

    The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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