This is an analysis of the poem Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant that begins with:

The heavenly frame sets forth the fame
Of him that only thunders; ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dece Xfbf ghch fXXf abdb gXbX bhXh chbh Xiji fjcj ffaf gede XbXb cgfg hgcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010011101 0111010 01001101 1010010 11011001 1110010 11010101 0101110 10111101 010101 10010101 111101 101101101 0111010 11010101 1101010 01111111 0101010 11011111 0101010 11111011 0101010 11011100 0111010 0101001010 011111 10111001 0101110 11001011 0101010 11011111 0101010 11011101 1001010 11010101 1111010 01011101 1101010 01001100 1110010 11111111 11001010 10010101 1011010 10011101 1100010 11110101 1100010 10011101 0111010 11110110 1100110 11011011 1001010 10111111 1101110 11110101 0111010 11111101 0101010 11110111 1111010 11011011 0101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; his, my are repeated.

    The author used the same words there, so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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