This is an analysis of the poem I Sikkre Folk Paa Jorden that begins with:

I sikkre folk paa jorden,
O seer hvor vredens torden...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XXbXXX aXXbXX XXcXXc XXXXXX XacXXX ddXXXX XXXXXX XbXXXX XXXbbb XXXXXX XXXXbX XXXXeX XXXXXb XXbXXb XXbXXX XXXXbb eXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 1111010 11111 111011 111110 1111101 111111 1011 11011 110111 110111 101101 010110 11011 110101 01101 110111 1100111 10111 11110 111101 1000110 1101100 11011001 01111 110101 110001 11011 1011 01010010 0111 111111 111111 101111 1011 10110110 111111 111111 11101 1111110 1101110 11111101 1111 110111 011011 11111 010111 1011111 01110 10111 10101 01111 11001 0101111 011010 11111 111001 111111 1111 11110111 01111 10011 110101 011001 10101 110111 011110 11111 11111 111111 1111 1111111 1100100 1011010 11101 011110 110111 1110010 01101 11111 110101 110111 11011 10101111 010110 110110 100101 110111 111111 111101 110101 11111 110101 110101 111101 1100001 110111 110111 010110 1111 01101 1111111 111111 110110 11111 111111 111111 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, en, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, din, nu, de, hvor are repeated.

    The author used the same words du, de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, nker, rre, re, mme are repeated).

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