This is an analysis of Psalm Lxxii: Great God by Isaac Watts.
Great God, whose universal sway
The known and unknown worlds obey,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee XbXc ffee ccbb bbdd ggcX hhii ccee XdeeXhhbb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 01101101 11010011 010100101 01010101 110110001 01010101 11110111 010110101 110010001 01010111 10110101 11111101 111101001 01110110 110011101 01011101 01010001 01101101 11010101 01110001 10010111 11010001 11010101 101110001 10010101 01010101 11111111 11110101 11010101 01110111 010010101 101101001 11010101 11010101 11100001 100110011 010010101 01010101 11010111 110101010 11011111 01010101 11011101 110010111 01010011 10010101 11010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
his, on
Anaphora
the
