This is an analysis of the poem Roeskilde Domkirke that begins with:
Alt rasler Nøglen i de tunge Døre,
Med Larm den rustne Laas nu op sig lukker,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XaX XXa XXX XXX bXX XcX XXc XdX XXX XXX XXX XXb eaX fXX XXX XXX Xgh XXg XXX Xbh XXX XXi XXX hXh XXa abX XXb hXX XfX XXX dXX XXX XXX aXa dad aXa XXX XXX XXX XiX XXX XjX jXj XhX hXX beX ehX X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011 1111111110 1101111101 11111110 111101110 111011110 1111100110 110110001 1110101010 01111101 1111010 110110011 1110111010 1111111101 111011111110 111111011 111110101 1100110011 111111111 1101110111 01111110 111111111 11111101100 1111111101 111110110 11011101 1101010110 111101011 110101101 110111011 0101110111 11011001 1111111111 1101011010 100111111 1001110111 111101111 1101001100 10011010 01111011 0101110001 0111011100 11101011 111110111 0101011101 10001111 11011101110 110111111 110101101 1101011111 1100011101 110101011 11111101010 110111110 11110101110 1101010101 11010111110 1101010111 11011111 1101011101 1101011100 11110111010 110100111 1110111010 110101111 11010111010 11111011 11111101 110111011 111101111 1101111111 11011111 111010001 1111000111 111110011 1101011101 11011100 1100011101 1011101111 101110111 11101111 11101101 11000111100 11011111010 11111111110 110011011 1101010010 1100001101 11011100100 010001011 111111001 110101100 010111110 11111101 111111101 111010110 110111101 111101110 110100110 11001011 110101011 111011100 1111111 11101011 1101011101 111010101 111101010 1001111110 11001101110 110101110 11111110 1111110111 1101011010 1001010011 111010110 111111100 111111010 111011101 111111010 110010101 1111010100 11011101 1110100010 110111011 10000101100 01101111 111110111 111011110 110111011 110111101 111110111 1001010101 11010111 1101110101 010101011 11010111 1111111110 110010111 1101101100 111011101 1111111101100 010111111 111011101 1110011100 11111111 1101001101 111101011 111111101 1001011111 1101111110 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 51
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 151
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, hans, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words siig, den, du, det, hvo, som are repeated.
The author used the same word thi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Roeskilde Domkirke;
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