This is an analysis of the poem Engle-Herolder, Hør Du Dem that begins with:
Engle-Herolder, hør du dem!
Kongen er født i Bethlehem!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXXXbXXXA XXXaccXXXA XXccXXXbXA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100101 10011101 10111100 1111110 10111101 10110111 111101 111101 10100101 10011101 1010111 10100011 1111110 10011011 1110111 10011101 1011100 1001111 10100101 10011101 1111101 10011101 1011111 10110111 11011101 01111111 1111110 1111111 10100101 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 300
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word christus is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, n are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word bethlehem at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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