This is an analysis of the poem A List of Praises that begins with:
Give praise with psalms that tell the trees to sing,
Give praise with Gospel choirs in storefront churches,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcbdc efaeXb bbfgbg bbgbg Xfbb XbXaggg Xbbhhhd ggeXbb Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,5,4,7,7,6,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 11010101110 10010010 11001001011001 11010101111 0100101010100100 10110111010010 110010011101 0010011111110 10110101110010 1100011101 00100100 1111010100 110010011 10101101 1101011011 10010101010 1100111 100101101010 110011100101001010 110101 1100101011110 1110100100111 111010010 11010011000 101101100110 110101 110110101 11001001 001011010 11101111 001110 11001110 1010 10010 110010010 110010 110001 010100 1100111 1111 11110 11010 0101110 1011110111 10110101 11011100 10111101010 10010011011 10010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, give, praise, of, and, river, far, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words give, and, far are repeated.
The author used the same word give at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines river is repeated).
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