This is an analysis of the poem En Psalme Mod Den Begyndte Lande-Plage that begins with:

Hører dog, I christne-lande!
Merk engang, du døbte Flok!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX bXbXXXXX XcXXaXXa XXXaXdXX XeXXXfXX XXXXXXXc XbXXXXXX XebXeeXX XaXadXXX XXXfXXXX aXXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 110011 11011 110111 111000 101101 1111110 111110 1111 101111 101111 111111 11111 111100 101101 1011101 1111101 1110111 111011 1010111 1011000 11111 111110 1111010 11101010 100111 10111110 1101111 11111 10111 1111011 111011 10111 1111111 1011101 1110111 111111 111101 1100101 1110111 10111 11011 1110111 1111101 111101 1011111 101101 111111 10101010 1011100 01111010 111010 1110111 111101 110011 1111101 10001010 110101 11101100 1011111 100111 1100010 111101 101100 111100 1110110 111111 1010111 11110 011111 111111 0110110 1111101 111101 10111110 101110 100101 1011101 101111 110111 1111111 1111 111011 100011 1111 1110101 100001 111111 1111 101101 111111 110101 11101 11111 11111 1111101 1110111 1111101 1111001 101011 111111 1110111 1111111 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; vi, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words har, o, b, h are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, n, re are repeated).

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  • summary of En Psalme Mod Den Begyndte Lande-Plage;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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