These pre-monarchial psalms are the closest to folk song in their simplicity of vocabulary, but not in their melodic range or structure. Rhythmically, Psalm 96 (for instance) is a chanty. (I suppose that some will consider it blasphemous to point out that many of the songs of praise are "whistle while you work" songs -- meant to be sung when rowing, plowing, walking between sites...). You don't mess with the rhythms of a work chanty. A change from a bi-syllable to a tri-syllable would stand out. It does not occur.
The Davidic Psalms are extremely sophisticated and tightly constructed. Any change of syllabic divisions from a bi-syllable to a tri-syllable would stand out like the proverbial sore thumb..It does not occur.
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