This is an analysis of the poem Verdens Daarekiste that begins with:

Hvis ey mit Haab og Christendom
Forsikred' mig at leve...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXcdeeXXXefeXXaXXXXXXXcXXXXXgXXaXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXhXhXXXXiaXaXXXXXXXXXjXXeXXXkXkXkXXXXkXkkXbXXXikiXXXXXXXXlXXeXXXXXXXXjXXXXXgXjXXXXXXXXekedXXXXXXXXXXbiXXbaXXXXXhXXXXXcXXXXXeXXXXXXXkfXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXfXXeXeXbXbXXkeXXcXXXXXXbibXbXbXXXXXXXXfXXXjXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 268,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111100 100111 10110101 110101 1111110 111111 1101111 11111 11100110 1101110 10011100 11010 011110 011010 11011101 1001110 1111101 01111 1101111 110111 11010110 110101 1111101 011100 1110111 111100 111111 1111100 1001011 111110 11011101 11011 1110111 11011 11011001 110111 10010000 100010 11001001 1101100 1100111 11011 1111101 10111 111101 1111100 1111010 1101100 1101100 10110 11010101 11101 1011001 100011 11110111 11111 1110111 110111 1101100 110101 1101111 1100010 11111101 10010 111011 1100010 11010110 111000 111111 10111 11100111 11011 11100101 111100 11010100 111110 1111110 110111 10011101 1111 11101101 111101 101011 110011 11111001 111101 11011101 0111 1101101 1111 111111 11111 1111110 01001 111111 11111 1001111 111101 111101 110001 1000111 1001100 10010111 1001100 1101111 1101110 1101100 110011 100011001 1001100 1101111 1101110 11010100 111110 1111111 11101 1101100 111110 11000100 1101000 100111 110111 111111 110011 10111111 110110 10001001 110001 1101101 1110 111110 11111001 11110 1101111 11111 101111 11110110 110110 10010111 1111010 10001101 110111 11011101 11011 1111101 1101000 1111101 1111010 1101011 100110 11001111 110101 1111111 1111 11110010 11111 11111111 110001 1101011 111101 11110110 10011 1110111 111110 1110110 110111 1101100 1111 111111 1101100 1101111 1101100 100010 100010 110100 1100010 1101100 110111 1101110 100111 1111101 11111 11010011 110011 1111100 110101 11010101 110110 111111 111111 1111000 1101 11010001 100110 11110110 101111 10010111 11111 11011000 111011 101111 01001 1100011 111010 111010 100111 1101100 11111 1101111 111110 11111101 11111 1001110 1111110 11011101 1011010 1111011 11111 1101011 111101 1111111 111110 1110011 1101010 1111100 111101 1011110 110100 111111 11111 11111100 110011 11110111 110111 11011101 110111 1110111 110111 11110111 11111 1111010 1111010 11110101 1110010 1101001 111010 11010111 110111 100111 11011 1111011110 11011 111011 11100 111100 11111 11111101 1101110 11111101 110100 11010110 110101 10011101 110111 11001110 11111 0111101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7635
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1399
  • Amount of lines: 268
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; en, og, han, ey, i, af, med, er, d, det, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, ey, med, nu, i, af, en, og, han, for, det, der are repeated.

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