This is an analysis of the poem Den Rette Biskop that begins with:
At ingen Tid og intet Land
Kan Geistlighed undvære,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX XXX XXXXXb XXb babaXX XXX XXaXXX XXX XXXXaA XaA XXXXXX XXX cXcXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,3,6,3,6,3,6,3,6,3,6,3,6,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11001 100101 11 11010100 11011111 1 11010100 11011111 11111111 100111 11111101 11 10110101 11001101 1 11110101 11000111 011111 1111110 111111 110 0111111 11000101 1 11111100 11000101 111111 01110 1111111 11 1101101 11011111 1 11111110 11011111 0101101 111111 101111 11 1101010 1101010 1 1101010 1101010 1101011 110111 11111 01 11011100 11110101 1 11011100 11110101 11100011 101111 11010 11 11111001 1101111 1 11010111 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, vi are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words veed, tant, snak, saa, constitution, om, gaaer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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