This is an analysis of the poem Optaget Er I Herlighed that begins with:
Optaget er i Herlighed
Du, som i Naade kom herned,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXX XXXaXX XabXXX XXXaXX XaXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10001100 0111110 111101 10000100 111111 110011 1001111 1101111 111000 0101111 111111 1100100 01110010 11011111 11011 10011101 10110100 111111 0111101 10110111 111111 11001101 11101111 110101 1101111 1111111 111111 10111 0110111 11011 1111100 1000111 111111 11000111 11011101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med, nu are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nu is repeated.
The author used the same word du 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 rk, n are repeated).
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