This is an analysis of the poem Herren, Han Sagde Til Herre Min that begins with:
Herren, han sagde til Herre min:
Thron ved min Side i Høihed din,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX XXbbX XXccX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 11111101 1111101 1111110 10011101 101101011 11010100 10011101 1011111 10011101 101111111 1001110 10100101 11101100 10011101 101111101 111101 1111100 1011110 10011101 100100111 100101111 10101101 1011111 11011101 11101101 11111101 111011 1010111 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, r are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word alle at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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