This is an analysis of the poem Ebræer-Menigheden that begins with:
Hvor Abraham i Hyrdehjem
Fik Pant paa Himmel-Sæden,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XaXbcXX XdXXXXX XXXXcbX XXXXXcX aXaXXcX XXXXXXX XbXbaXX XXcXXXX XXXdXXX XXXXeeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011100 111101 11001101 111100 11011101 11010111 111111 11101111 111101 11010011 010111 11001011 1110110 111111 1110101 110110 1101111 110111 11100111 11010111 110111 1001111 110101 11010101 110111 1101101 11010101 1101000 1111101 110011 11110110 11101 11100100 11110111 110001 11011101 11111 11110111 110011 1111011 11000111 110111 11110100 1101110 11001100 1101010 11110110 11111101 1101110 11110001 1101110 11001101 111110 11111101 11010011 1101000 111110 1101 10110111 110001 11011100 1101100 10011 11011100 11011 110110100 1111010 1101111 11011001 100101 11001101 10110 1111100 100100 1101111 111011 1101000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 86
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, det, i, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, det, som, en, f, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).
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