This is an analysis of the poem Psalm Cxxxvii The Babylonian Captivity that begins with:
ALONG the banks where Babel's current flows
Our captive bands in deep despondence stray'd, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gaga fhfhXadad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1101011001 111010101 0101010001 01001110111 11011101001 0101010111 11010101001 01001000101 0101010101 11010101001 1110010101 1101011101 1101010101 11010101001 1101010101 010110011101 0111011101 11001010101 1111011111 1101111101 10001010101 0101010001 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1163
- Average number of words per stanza: 180
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word if is repeated.
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