This is an analysis of the poem Indføds-Retten that begins with:

Stor er den — Giennem Himlene
Skal Glædens høye Gienlyd trænge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX aXaXbXXX XXXXXXbc XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX dXXXdXXX XXXXeXXX XXdbXXbX XXXXXXXf cXXXXXXX XbXXbgXg XXXXbXXX XXcXXdXd fXfXhXia XXXXXXXX XfffXXXX XXhffgXg XXXXXhei XXXXXXXa dXdjiXhf XXXXXXXX dhXibXXX XXXXfXXX gbgXXXXX XXXXXdXX XXajXXXX XhXXdXdX fXfXkXXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011010 110101 110110 100111 10111100 111111 111111 111111 1111101 1101101 110111 111011 111111110 111111 101101100 1111111 1011101 110111100 10110100 11110000 11110110 1010010 11101110 1100101 11111101 1111100 111101 11011110 111111010 11100101 1111100 110101 1101111 11011010 111100 11011100 1111101 11110 1111101 1111111 1111111 1101010 1111010 0111010 11101111 1110111 1101011 1111101 11100100 1101011 1001111 10011001 0111101 111111 1101111 11011110 10010110 11110101 11010111 11011110 1011100 11110111 10011110 10011100 11011000 11011011 111111 1110111 11111100 1111100 10111110 1010111 11110101 1101111 11110 110111111 11111110 11111101 10011100 1000011 11011000 11111110 11110100 1100100 11110110 1001001 111001110 10111101 01111101 01110101 01111000 1101011 011110110 110111111 01111100 1111111 1111110 101101010 1010101 11100110 11111110 11011111 11110110 1111101 11110111 0111101 1111110 101111111 1101111111 11111100 11110110 1111111 1011111 100111010 1111011 110001010 1101011 1111111 110110 1111111 11111100 110101110 11011001 110100110 111111100 11111001 111001010 11001000 1011010 11111100 1111111 110011 1111011 111101 111011010 1010101 111100 111011 1101111 1001101 11111001 11111 1101101 1110100 110111 111110 11100101 101111001 110111 110111 011011 0101101 11011001 1001111 100111 1001101 1111010 1011100 1110101 1111101 11111101 1111010 11100100 11011110 11111110 11110101 1111110 1110010 110111 10011101 11110101 1100100 11010110 11011011 11101000 1001101 1110100 111011 1110101 1111011 110111 101111 11011110 1101111 1101101 110101110 1101011 11101000 10011111 1101110 1101110 110110 101011 110101 0111101 101011 1110100 11110111 11010100 1110111 111011 1110111 1110101 11111001 111011 11001000 11011101 110011 11011001 10011101 01110100 11010111 111111 10110100 111111 11010111 11111101 111011 111110 1110101 11011110 11110 111111010 101110 111110 1001111 11111110 1111011 111111 11110100 111111111 110111110 11100101 11011101 11111000 111010 111110 1101111 11111111 0101111 1011011 1101111 1101111 1111111 1111010 1101101 1111111 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 248
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; s, og, men, er, det, min, thi, hvor, den, du, til, da, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, men, er, saa, jeg, og, som, thi, de, kun are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Indføds-Retten;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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