This is an analysis of the poem A Translation Of The Civ. Psalm To The Original Sense that begins with:

My soul exalt the Lord with Hymns of praise:
O Lord my God, how boundless is thy might?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedecc fgfgff hbhbaX ibibcc cacabb hchcjj kckccc hhhhcc clclaa mcmXiXXii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 1111110011 110101001001 1101111101 11010101001 1001011101 11001010101 110101101 1101010101 1100100101001 1101011101 1101010001 0111110101 1111111111 1101110110 1111001101 1101110111 1101111111 1101110101 10110010111 1111011101 1011010111 1101101111 01010101001 0111001101 0111111111 1101110101 1101101111 1101111001 11001011101 1101110101 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 11010011101 0101110101 1101010101 0101100101 1101110111 11110010111 1111111001 1101110101 11111100111 1101000111 1001100101 1101001101 1101110111 111010101 1101110111 1111010111 1111010101 1111110111 1101110101 1011011010 1101111101 1101011101 0111111111 0101011101 0111011001 0101101101 01010111001 1111111111 1101110101 1111010111 111111111 0101001110 1101111001 0111011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, thy, they, their, and, of, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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