This is an analysis of the poem Hjerteqvad Til Grundtvig that begins with:

Jeg veed, at, selv naar Jordgrav-Klokken gaaer;
Udringes end ei mine Skole-Aar;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXXbXX cXXcXd XXXXXX XXXeXX XXXXXX dXXXXX XeXbXX bbXaXX XcXXXX ddXXXX ffXXfX XaeXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110101 10011111 111101110 11111110111 111101111 111111110 1101010001 111111110 1100010111 111111001 111111100 010101111 11011011 1111010111 1100111110 1111111 1111110100 1111111101 111101100 110001110 1111010111 11111111 101100111 111101101 1111010100 1110111000 0101110101 1110111011 1010101111 1111011011 111011111 111110111 11111110 111110110 111110111 111101011 11111101 11111111111 1100100111 1111011101 1101011111 1101111111 1101111100 111100011 111110111 11101101 111110101 100111011111 1101111101 11011111111 1110111001 111111111 0111010101 1101011001 110100111101 1100111001 11111011111 111111111 1111111101 111011101 11111101 1011110010 1101111101 111111111 111111111 111111111 11111101 110101011 1110110111 100111011 1101110111 1111111111 1111110011 111101011 111100101 111010101 111111100 1111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, i, sp, r, da, jeg, den, med are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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