This is an analysis of the poem Den Hellige Kilde that begins with:

Der risler trindt paa Jorden om en Kilde;
O helligt, helligt os dens Indhold være!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXABXX XaXXXXcXX dXXXXXeXX XXXXXXXXX dXXdXXaXX XXXcXeXXX XXXXXABXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110111 1101011101 110111100 110101100 111011110 011011101 111111111 11110111 110100110 110001011 1011111110 1101011110 111110110 110101111 111011100 100111110 110111011 110101111 11010011110 1111111111 1101011111 11011101 1011101110 1101011101 111111011 111101111 1111011101 1101011110 1101010110 1101111111 110101110 111011000 111101010 11010110 1101110101 1101111 1111010010 1101011101 110111111 1100010110 110101110 1101110110 111111101 110111011 1101111100 11111111 111111110110 111111101 10111111110 110111111 111111111 100111111111 11111101 010111011111 1101110111 110111111 110111100 110101100 111011110 011011101 111111111 11110111 110100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 349
  • Average number of words per stanza: 68
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, i, taler, ei, da are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ei, og, den, da are repeated.

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