This is an analysis of the poem Stand Up And Bless The Lord that begins with:

Stand up and bless the Lord
Ye people of His choice;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abab cXdX defe afbf Xcac AfdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 110001 11110111 011111 110111 011101 11110101 111101 110101 001101 01111101 1101011 100101 111101 110000101 110111 101111 100101 10010101 01110010 111101 011101 111101001 111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • 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; and, our are repeated.

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