This is an analysis of the poem Salomons Sang Blandt Cedrene that begins with:
Du er Cederens Søster, min Brud fra Libanons Høie!
Du er skjøn i din Høihed, som Bjerget, hvor Kongerne sad....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXXb XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0010011111001 00111101101101 1111111000101 110010110111 111111111010 1111100101011 1000111011001 10101111010110 111111110011 11001111011001 0101101111001 11110011010110 11101101111001 11111111101 111111100111 11101001111001 101111001110010 101111011011001 110010111011 111101111111110 11111101101111 1111111111110 11001111111000 1010011011101 00101101111001 00111101110111 11111110011001 110010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ei, i, jeg, har, min, kun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, vend, jeg, har are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines l, i, m are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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