This is an analysis of the poem Psalm One that begins with:
To love you or not to love you-
I go away, leaving behind me ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcaXdefgbhihiAgjAabkeidgakjXaeXkcAfiXb AhhjXjhkhcieeAXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,16,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111011 110110011 11001000111 11100111 010010011111 1101111 1111010101 10011101 1111000001 11110111111010100111111 101000011001010010010 011 1001101001010 01011 01111011 11010111111 101101111010001 01111011 01001101101111 1101 110010010011 1 11010110000101001 1010111011001110 100101 1111111111 111 0101001110100101 1111111 111111111 101110100100100 001010010 10101101 001 01111011 010010100101 0101010010001 1011 011111101 01111011 1111101101110 110111110 1111010 1110011110110 0110010110 100110 101001001011 10110 10101011 101010 1010010110 101110101101 01111011 11011111011 1101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1130
- Average number of words per stanza: 206
- Amount of lines: 55
- 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; to, not, you, of, tried, i, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, you are repeated.
The author used the same word to 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 you, crying are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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- summary of Psalm One;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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