This is an analysis of the poem O! Kiære Siæl, Som Bliver Ey that begins with:

O! kiære siæl, som bliver ey
Ret længe her paa jorden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX XXXX XcXX dXdX XXXX eXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXeX aeXX XXeX XeXe XXbX eXXX Xfcf XXeX XXXX XXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 110110 111011 1100010 11011101 110111 11011101 111101 1110111 11011 1101111 11001 1100101 1111010 11011011 1100110 11011110 110111 1101010 110101 1111101 100111 11011101 11011 11001110 110110 11010101 11110 11001100 110101 1111110 110111 1111011 11111 1111101 111101 11111101 110110 1101111 11101 1111011 110101 11101110 110110 11011001 111100 1110011 110110 11110100 111101 11110101 110111 11111 110101 1111101 110110 011111 01101 11110110 11011 011101 110110 1101111 010110 10111001 111111 11110101 110100 1111111 110111 111011 110101 111111 110101 1111011 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; d, de, og are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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