This is an analysis of Psalm 124 by Isaac Watts.

A song for the fifth of November.
Had not the Lord, may Isr'el say,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd efef bgbg hihi
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 011010010 11011101 11010111 11011101 11010001 01011111 11000101 11010101 1101100011 11111111 11010101 11010101 11010101 1101001 1101011 11100101 11111101 11000101 11011101 11011101 10110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

had, who