This is an analysis of the poem Bruden I Rørvig Kirke that begins with:

Klart skinner Maanen paa den nøgne Kyst.
I Præstegaarden er nu Alt saa tyst;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXbbXX XcXXdXXeXffXXXX XddXXXXcXXX XdXdXXXgXhXXeXXXXfXiiXXXXXXcXXXXXhhXXXX gXXXXXXXXXX gdXXXbbXXiXXddXdXXX XhhaXXXXXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,15,11,39,11,19,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101111 110001111 11110111 111011100 11011111110 11011101100 11111101 101111101 1101010101 11101111 110101011 110110101 11011111 1101111 1 1101111 1111111 11110011 011111 1101111 11110 110111101 01111111 01111101 1111101 11011001011 1101011001 01111010 110110 1 100110111111 1101011010111 110011110101 011101110011 110010101111 1101101111 1111101111 1101010110111 11111010101 1011111011 1 110101101 011110111 11011111 011110101 11011101 11111111 1011111101 110111101 11101111 11101100 101111111 1111011 1101011101 111110111 11001111 11101011 111110111 101111101 1111001101 1101111011 110111101 11111101 11011011 11011111 1101010111 1101000111 11111111 11111111 11111011 110101001 1100111111 1111111 11010101111 111111011 1101011101 1011110111 1101011011 11111101 1 11000111 110111011 1101110101 1101111101 111011111 111101111 111110111 110111101 1101111110 1111110110 1 110110111 101010111 1101111001 110010101 11111101 110101111101 110010111101 11101011011 110111010101 11101101110 11010011111 101111111 11111100101 11011100110 110111101011 11100111111 1110111100 1101011101 1 11001001111 111101100101 1101011110 1111111111 11111111101 1101110111100 10111111111 11010110111 1100100110001 110101010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 678
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, de, og, ved are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, ved are repeated.

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

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