This is an analysis of the poem Hør Vor Hellig-Aftens Bøn that begins with:
Hør vor Hellig-Aftens Bøn!
Hør os, Guds eenbaarne Søn!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX aXaXXX XXXXXX bbXaXX bXccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110101 111101 101111 1001111 110101 1110111 1001111 1111101 1010011 111110 111110 1101111 1111110 11111 111101 111111 1100111 1110111 100111 10111 1010111 10101011 1100010 1011100 10111 111000 110011 10111 11000110 1001110
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; h, os, r, de, og, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words h, som are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, de are repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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