This is an analysis of the poem Mene, Mene Tekel Upharsin that begins with:
Sceptret, ikke det paa Thronen,
Det der viser os Nationen,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXbX XXXXXX XXaXXX XbXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXX ccdXXd XXXXXX XXXXXX cXXXXX XXXXccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,9,6,6,6,6,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 11101100 111101 1010110 11101110 1011011 110101 1100001 1011101 1111001 111111 1111101 11111 111010 101101 1011100 0111101 1001101 1111010 11001110 1001101 11101110 1010110 111101 11111010 10111010 100110 110111 100001 1010101 1010111 110011 1100111 1010110 111101 1110101 10101000 1101110 111101 111101 1100011 101011 11101010 1010100 1110111 10101100 11100100 101111 11101110 10101110 110111 111011 1110111 101111 110101 1110101 110111 1011110 110110 1100101 0010111 1101110 1000010 11000010 1101100 101111 101111 11110 1100101 11101 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; er, som, de, hvad are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hvad is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rste, len, en, ie are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mene connects the lines.
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