This is an analysis of the poem Jesum Seer Jeg For Mit Øye that begins with:

Jesum seer jeg for mit Øye,
Som jeg ret skinbarlig stod,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXaaXX XXXbXbXX XXXXcXXX XXXdXXXX XXXdXXXX XXXbXXXX XXXXeXXX XXaXcXXX XXXbbXbX fXfXXXXX XcXXaaXX fXXbXXXX XXXXXfXX XXXbeeXX XXXbeeXX XXXXXaXX bXbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111 1111001 100110 111111 1111111 111111 111111 11111111 111011 11111011 111111 111011111 1111111 111011 111110 1111101 10111 0111101 110111 1111010 111011 11111 1101101 111011 1111111 111101 11111 111101 1111101 11111 1011111 1110110 111101 11111 111011 101101 110111 101101 10111 11111 01101 10111 101101 111101 10111 111110 11110 11011 101111 111111 10111010 111111 1011111 11111111 111011 111011 111111 110111 10111 11111 1011111 111110 1011101 11111 10101110 11000 101111 110101 10101 11111 11111 11111 1010110 11010 1111110 111101 1000101 1110110 1111 111111 101110 10111 11101010 11111 1110111 111101 1011110 11111110 1011010 111101 1101110 101111 110111 111111 11101100 111110 1010111 110001 111111 111011 111111 11111110 111111 0011100 10111010 1111111 1110111 101011 1111101 11111 1111101 100011 1100110 100011 11101110 100011 1110011 111011 1011110 1011110 1010001 11011 1011101 111011 1011011 1110111 11100 101111 111011 1110111 111011 011110101 001111 111101 111101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 218
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 146
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; de, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words hvad, jesu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nder, r are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.

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