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

Digteren
Pindsemorgen! o hvor skjøn!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXabbXXXXXaXaXaXXXXaXXXaXXXXcXdXXXX effgXX Xa eX Xe ee XX eXXXXXXX XXXXXbgXb eXXhX XiXXeXXXXXXXiXbjXejfeXXkdXXdXcX eXd XX eehXeXXXXXXXXX XXXXX XaaXX XXh XXXaaX XXXXdXdXXgXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXdXX XXXXXXXXgXXXXXXXXXXgXXXXXXXXXfkXeXXXaaXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,6,2,2,2,2,2,8,9,5,31,3,2,14,5,5,3,6,29,123,70,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 1000111 101010 11101110 11111 1100110 1010001 111111 1110111 1110111 111111101 101101 101111 11111010 11111 1010010 1110101 100110 1010111 11101000 1100100 11111 111110 1101010 101101 100111 1011010 1110001 10111 1111000 01001000 1110011 11100100 101111 1111110 111101 1011010 1101111 1 1100111 11111 0011001 101111 1110110 100 111100 1 11 100 1 1 11 100 1111 1 1111001 0100111 111111 111001 111011 111111010 101111101 100 111001 1011111 1111100 111100 1011111 1011111 0111110 110111 1 1111101 1111111 101011111 1011101 100 1100011 1111110 111101 1111011 11101100 111111 1111111010 1010101 11111010 11101 10111000 1111101 11100 1111 111111 1111110 1010111 1111101 111101 111011 1111110 1110011 1111101 11111111 111111 111110 11111 1110111 1110101 1111101 1 101111 111111 100 0110 1 111 1110110 0110111 1110111 1001111 1110011 1010111 111011 111111 111111 11101011 111111111 010111 11110 1101110001 110101 11111010 1011100110 100 1110110 110010 1101010 11010101100 11 110101 1101110111 100 111110 1111111010 1011111010 110110 1111011001 100 1010101 1110111 1110101 101111 0110111 111011 11111 1110100 10111110 111100 1001110 111111 10111000 1011101 111110 10111 10100110 1011111 1111010 11111 111101 111011 111111 111111 1111100 10111 11111000 1100111 100 110011 1100010101 1101100 1011100110 111111 11101111 111110 1101111001 101111 11101111 11011110 1101110110 1111110 1101010110 11101 11101011 110111 110111011 111111 110011100 111011111 1100011110 11111 1100010111 11011001100 0111010110 110110 111111100 11011 110101111 1111000 1101111110 1111010 11110111110 111001110 11110111010 101110 11110111010 1111000 1110010110 1110100010 111110110 11011 1101110110 11100 110101001 1101011 1111111000 11011111010 11011001010 1101100111 11111 1101011010 11010001010 111110 11011001000 11111 11010100 110011 111001101 110111 111111001 1100010 11010011010 110110 11010101010 111001 111101111 110101111 111011 1101011110 110101101 111111010 11011 110110110 100100 1110010 1111110 1101011100 111101 1101110101 1111110 1101011110 110101 110010 11110001110 1111111110 1111010 1101100 10011111000 1111011110 111111 110111110 11101111 110111001 111110 111101001 101001001 110101011 1101011111 111111100 1100011110 1101111000 11010110 11010110010 110111101 10111100100 111001111 1111001101 1101011101 11111100 111001 111100 110110 1101010100 1011111000 1111100110 0111010 1110 1111010 1100110 1100111000 100 1101000 01110010 1100111 1111010 111011 1011111 111111 1010111 111101 1011110 0110100 01101100 111010 11111110 111101 10110100 011111 011111 1011110 101111 1001001 1011101 1111100 11100 111111 1011101 101100 1111101 1011101 1111110 11111111 111110 11111 1011101 111011 1100111 1111101 111111 1100101 111111 1110101 1111001 1111100 1010111 101111 1001110 110111 1111110 1011101 111010 101101 1100111 1101010 11001 1110101 110011 11001 111111 111111 111110 101111 11101100 1011101 1100101 11110 110011 11110 1001101 1111001 1110 1100111100 111001111 100101110 101101101 111001111 111011 111101101 10111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 503
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 393
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, det, en, med, i, den, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, for, i, og, en, hvor, lad, kunde are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, nt, k, re, de, ver, ler, gte, rken, vet, des, rker, ge, res are repeated).

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