This is an analysis of the poem Over Johannes Kinast that begins with:

Mon den, som knæler for den Høye
Fornemmer Lyd af Skabningen? -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXbcXXc XXXXXXdX dXXXXXXX aXbXXXXX XeXXfXXf XXXXXXXc XXXeXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1111110 10011100 11111111 1101011 1111101 11101110 11101110 11000100 11011101 11111101 1100011 111111 11011101 110101100 011111100 01110111 1111111 1100100 11111 101011 1011111 11110100 111101000 1111010 1110111 01011101 11111011 1011100 1110111 11010100 11110010 1110011 11111110 1111011 11101110 1101111 1111100 11011111 11110110 1111000 1111100 101110 11110111 1011010 01111111 11100111 11110101 11111 111110 111111 1111011 1111011 1111000 11001111 1111111 11011 110111111 11110111 111010 111011 11101101 1110111 11110111 1111011 11111110 1111011 101011110 11100001 1110001 111110 101111 10011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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; den, i, d, det, mon, hvor, at, og, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, det, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rer, de, le are repeated).

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