This is an analysis of the poem Guds Riges Evangelium that begins with:

GUds riges evangelium
Er sødt som honning-kage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXccX XXXXdXX XXXXccX XXXXXeX cXcXXXX bXXXXcX XaXXdXX cXcXXXX XXeXcXX XXXXXXX XXcXXXc XXXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000 011101 11111101 111111 10110101 110111111 111101 1110101 110111 10111111 111111 10110101 11011101 110111 1011101 101101 11001111 001111 11011101 11111101 110110 010110110 1010100 00111101 11111110 11110111 11111 110111 1111111 111111 11111101 11011 1111101 1111011 110111 10111111 1101100 1011000 111110 1101111 11011101 111110 11111101 110101 11111010 11111 11010111 11110101 011101 0110111 11011 1101101 01101 1011110 10011101 110111 11110011 1111 1111101 1111010 1101111 1111011 110111 11010101 110110 110111 11111 11111101 11111101 1111100 11111111 111111 1101111 11011 1011111 111111 11101 01011100 110110 11011101 101110 11001101 11011011 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 86
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; og, du are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word du is repeated.

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

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