This is an analysis of the poem Protestantismen I Naturen that begins with:
Det gjælder Kamp paa Liv og Død,
Imod det Ydre ruster sig det Indre,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXbaa XXbXXXXX XXXXX XbXXaXaXXX XXXXXXXXXX acacXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,8,8,8,5,10,10,12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 101110111 111111 111011011 11011101 1111111 110111010 11101011 11010 111 1100 1101 1110010010 101 110110010 1111 1001010110 100101100 101100 1010 1110111111 1001 111111001 1111 111001110 111110111 111110 111 10011111 100111 101111111 11 10011101110 1001011011 11110 10010 101101100 1010 101001001 1011 111110111 111111101 1111 1011 111111 1111010 111101 111010 11101 110101101 1101 11111101 1111 011101110 1101 01111110 1101 1001011110 1001011010 100101111 0101 11111111 1111 111101101 1110 111111101 111 1101010111 1111010011 1011110 10111 11111110110 1111 11101111 1011001 110011101 111111 1110010 110111 111100 11111001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 85
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, d, den, jeg, hvor, du, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, hvor, idet are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, ben are repeated).
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