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

Tung af mange mørke Dages Kummer,
Kied af Tanke, Lys og Liv og sig,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXX XcXXXX dXXXXX abXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXabXX XeXXXX XbXbXX XXXXXa XXXXXX adaXXe XXXcXX XbXbXX XXXXXX aXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111010 11111111 111110110 111111100 11110110 11110111 11110111 111011101 11101101 101010111 111100 110111111 111100111 10101110 11111101 11101010 111010111 1111011111 11110110 11101111 111100000 01011000 11101111 11100011 1010011110 101111101 101111 1110111 11101101 1111111100 1111111 001011101 111010111 11101111 10110101 1010011010 111010100 11110100 1111001110 1011111 101111111 1110111100 1001111101 111010101 10101111 10111010 111111 1011101100 1111010 111111011 1110111111 101101001 11011101 111111111 11101111 111111 110011 11111111 11110110 10101110 11101011010 101011100 1111000100 1111111 11010111 01101110 11110110 101011101 1111110 1101100 1101101 0101001 100111110 11101111 1110110 1110110 11111101 01101110 111010111 1010111 111110111 1011111 111011110 11111110 11110111 11111101 11110111 110010101 111101110 101110000 11111010 111110111 11000110 111111 111111010 111111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; min, d, den, med, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines den, ie, de, nner are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word dernede at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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