This is an analysis of the poem Frisk, Zion, Paa Vor Vagt that begins with:

Frisk, Zion, paa vor Vagt!
Lad ingen staae forsagt!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXa XXXXXX XXbXXXXaXXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 110110 1110100 1111101 11111111111 111111 11111 111111 1110101 1110111 1110100111 11011 11011 111101 1011101 111111111 11111 11111 10111111 110011 101111111 11011 101011 1011111 111101 1101101 10101111111 11001 01111 111101 1110001 101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; ve, e, de are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines e is repeated).

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