This is an analysis of the poem Tjenstagtighed that begins with:
Tjenstagtighed det er en herlig Dyd;
Ei sandt, Enhver er af den Mening? -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXa XXXXXaXXbXXcdX XXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXbXXdXXXXX XXXXdXXdXXXX XXXXdXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,30,12,12,7,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1000101101 111001110 1111101 11111111 101111100 1111111 1101101 10111111110 1111110101 01101110 11111110 10111101 11010101 11100010 110010110 1100110010 100111110 011010101 11011101 11001101 1111111 11011110 1101101000 11111111 1101011110 1101110101 11111111 11111110 11011101 11110111011 111111111 111111 111111111 11011111 111011110 111110010 111101011 1111111010 11110111 111111110 111111110 1111010111 1111110101 111100011 1111101 111111 111111 111010011 11110111 1111101100 1110001110 1011110100 11011110 111110111 111110011 100111011 1101110011 11011111 110101111 111000111 11111111 10011100111 111111000 11110101 111101 111111101 11110111 110111101 110001111 111101111 1111111 11111111 1111111111 1111010111 11111111000 111111111 1111101101 111101111 1111110 111111 1101110 111111100 111010110 110101111 10100111 1101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
- Average number of words per stanza: 91
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; han, hans, blev, den, at, som, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words maaskee, han, den, at, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rn, ring, sen, ved are repeated).
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