For the most part, Ramsho is pretty similar to Safro (albeit a few pages shorter - if the terms below are a bit unfamiliar, here's a primer post to help decipher them). This post compares Ramsho to Safro extensively, so if you'd like to have a text of Safro available for visual aid it can be found here.
Following the opening prayer, just like Safro and Lilyo, Ramsho has the singing of the Gloria. Where Ramsho differs from Safro (and in turn contributes to its relatively shorter length) is the number and length of the qole. Ramsho does not draw on non-Psalmic texts (like Safro, which uses the Glory of the Mother of God - the Magnificat - and the Glory of Mor Ephrem) but rather, like the simpler offices, just uses Psalms. Ramsho also only has two sets of prayers and qole, as opposed to the four in Safro, before the sooghito and hoosoyo.
The first qolo of Ramsho is rotated with Psalm 51 and the second with Psalms 141, 142, 119:105-112 and 117. The qolo of the hoosoyo for Sunday is a Qadishat Rohem Nosho qolo (distinctive elements discussed here), just like Safro. After the hoosoyo is a mazmooro and then the typical concluding bo'oto. As one can see, Ramsho is really structurally Safro with different Psalms and no Shabah qolo.
Thematically, the prayer seem to be reflective of the time of day - just as Safro often alludes to the second coming, Ramsho is concerned with the impending "falling asleep" (in a personal sense - i.e. death - and an eschatological one). The mood, rather than the glory of morning, has the penitential feel of the darkness of evening. An exemplary excerpt from the first qolo:
Hallelujah. Send us not to the outer darkness, our Lord, on the day of Your coming. Do not join us to those on the left but make us worthy of Your bridal chamber with the holy ones who have done Your will.I look forward to completing Ramsho and moving on to Lilyo sometime this week.
Our Lord, accept our service, our prayers, come to our aid and have mercy on us!
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