The Qualities of Language in This Gorgeous Expression

John W. Welch

Having talked much about the wording of Alma 29, we are now prepared to read the words themselves. Hopefully these two final charts will help readers to see Alma’s masterpiece once again for the first time. However one reads this chapter, it always yields new insights. Here is a new arrangement of this text, with thematic subdivisions, with color coding to highlight the repetitions of individual words and phrases, with the text separated into poetic and parallelistic lines, and with chiastic inversions made apparent. This chart is followed by information that draws attention to word frequencies in Alma 29. Awareness of these textual characteristics and interactivities adds appreciation to the sophistication of this text at many levels.

John W. Welch Notes

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