This is an analysis of the poem Paraphrase Of The First Psalm that begins with:
The man, in life wherever plac'd,
Hath happiness in store,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb ddXd Xece aaXa baXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110001 11100101 111101 10010101 110101 10010011 110101 11110101 110101 01010111 110101 11110101 100101 11010101 010101 11110001 110111 11011101 110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 20
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.
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