This is an analysis of the poem Hymne Til Fornuften that begins with:
Du Menneskets Guddom, hvis himmelske Haand
Vor Art til Fuldkommenheds Throne fremleder,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXbX cXcXXXXX XXadXXXX XXXXXXXd XXXXeXeX aXaXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100101101 11110001100 11110111 110011100100 1011101010 11100101010 1111100111 1101101111 010011001 1101001010 110101111 1100011001 11001110001 111111011 1001001111 111111011 1011110111 11001101010 0101110011 0110001010 10011011001 11011011001 1011111010 0101111001 1001000001 1001011001 11011111010 1101011001 01011011001 110011110100 11001011001 110110110010 1101011001 1001011000 100110001 1101100101 11101011 1111011001 110110101 10111011010 11111011 11111100010 110111001 1101011010 11111001 110111101 111110010 1001111001 100100110 1100101001 11111101111 11000001111 111011001 11011101 1101011010 1110000110 1100111010 11101110 110101001 110110011100 011001101111 01100101 11001111001 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; og, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, og, jeg, forgi are repeated.
The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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