This is an analysis of the poem Det Er Nu Engang I Sin Orden that begins with:

Det er nu engang i sin Orden,
At jeg maa holde mig til Jorden....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXXX XXXabXXX XXXXXXXXXXabXXXXXXXXXXcXXcX XddXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXbXabXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,27,30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101110 11111110 1110111 11110111 11011111 11011101 111110 1111110 110101 11000010 11010110 11110110 1111111 1110010 1111111 11010111 11001111 11011011 1111111 111010110 1001011 11011111 1100111 1011111 0111101 11000011 1011111 1101111 11110111 11110111 11111101 11101101 11111100 11111101 11111110 11111101 11110100 11010110 11111110 111101110 110111100 11111100 1101111 1111100 11111100 10110111 1101110100 11011111 11111111 11100011 1111101 1111010 1101111 11010100 1111101 11110111 1110000 1011111010 111111010 1111111 11110111 10110111 1011111111 1011101 1111101 1011111 111011 1011101 1100011 1001011 11111111 1111111 1111011111 1111111 1101111 1101100 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
  • Average number of words per stanza: 123
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, ie, og, sig, en, har, med, liv are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, og, en, jeg, at, hvorved are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ie, ven, ve are repeated).

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  • summary of Det Er Nu Engang I Sin Orden;
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  • history of its creation;
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