This is an analysis of the poem Orgelet that begins with:

Det er mig engang for Sandhed sagt,
at mellem Kirkerne findes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101101 1101010 1111111 111110110 1111110 10111011 110101010 1101101 110100111 11111 1101110 1100010 11111101 111111 110111101 111100 11111101 1101110 110101111 11011000 11111101 11101011 1111011 110111 101101110 111110 101101101 11111110 111101 1100101111 11110111 111101 11011110 111110 110101101 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; man, jeg are repeated.

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

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

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