This is an analysis of the poem Luther I Wittenberg that begins with:
Det var udenfor Wittenbergs ærværdige By,
Der samledes en Skare i Decembermorgnens Gry,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXXXX XXbXXXXXXX cXXXXXXXcXXX bbbbXXbb AXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,12,8,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110010011 1100111100001 11001111011 10111111111 101111011 010101011 110111111110 110111111010 10111011011 1101101011101 101111100010 11010101010 10011011011 1111010011 11010011001 1101111011 110111011001 110110011111 1110111111101 110111011101 11100101010 10110101111110 111110101111 1110111101 11011111101110 1101101110110 110011011110 1101100011110 110111011011 11101011001 1111101101010 11010101110010 11011101101110 1101111010010 110111001110 1101111101110 1111010111010 11111110100110 1110010011 1100111100001 10110110110 11111101010 10010110011 10100110010 1011001101 10100011101 100110110101 111011111 10110110110 10011111000 101011001 1101111001 11111101011 11011111001 1111110110 1111111110110 1101011110 10011110000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, hvor, ej, der, han, er, i, ligger, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, ingen, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nner, ngerne, re, der, rke, lde are repeated).
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