This is an analysis of the poem Den Hellige Nadvere that begins with:
Hvor flygted du, venlige Aand!
Som strakte til Himlen din Haand,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aa XXbXXXcXbb XXaaXdbXXX ccdXXXbbXX XXeeXaXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX cXcX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,10,10,10,10,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101 1111011 110 110 1111111011 101111101101 1011010 1011001 1111101 1011000 111111 111011 111101 111111 101101 1110101 111011 111100 11010 111011 11111 1110111 1011101 11111 111111 10111 10111 1110111 101111 11111 11101 1100111 110111 1110101 101110 1101101 1101 10111110101 10101111101 110111111101 11001 0101110111 011010010 101 1010 11011011110 11011101 111011 11010101 0101110 011011 111101 11001101 11001010 110111010 111101011 110110100 1111111 11011101 11111011 1101011 111111 11011100 11011101 11101100 11110101 11101101 1111011 11010101 11010100 11010101 1101011 11010100 1111101 1101011 1101111 1110111 11010111 1111110 1111111 11001101 1101011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 82
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- 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; d, den, r, hvad, hvilken, de, i, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, da are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, v, dme are repeated).
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- summary of Den Hellige Nadvere;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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