This is an analysis of the poem Herren, Som Raader I Himmerig that begins with:

Herren, som raader i Himmerig,
Ham vil vi love og prise,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcX dXXcXXX XXXXecf XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XaXXdXe XXXXXgX XXhXXXX XXXXXXX bcbXaXX eXcXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXffX XXbXeXX XXaXeXX XXXXXXX XXcXhhg XXXXXgX XXXXgXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101100 111111 11110100 111001 1111001 11111100 1110101 1011101 10101 11010101 101011 10001000 1010111 110011 1111111 10010110 101111 1110010 101111 101011111 111111 10011111 11111100 1110111 1011110 11101111 10111101 1101110 10101111 1011111 1111001 111111 11111100 1010111 111110 10011101 1001011 10011110 100111 11000111 1001100 1010101 101111101 1011111 1111111 111101 1011111 1011101 1111110 111011100 1011110 111011 10111 1110111 1011101 111111 101101111 10101110 101101101 111110 10101101 1010110 111001 1111011 100101 10001101 1011001 10100111 111111 1101110 100101001 1101010 10110111 10110110 1101111 1110111 1100111 10011101 1111011 1111111 1011011 1110101 1111011 110111 100101111 111111 1111101 111111 1111101 1011111 11011110 1011100 1011011 11010111 1111110 10111101 111101 1111101 101101100 11010110 1001111 1011010 11101111 111111 110111 10110011 101001 10011101 100101 1111101 11111 111111 100101100 111001 1110111 10111 10101111 1110011 110111 100011001 111111 1111111 101111 1111111 1111111 111111 1001011 101101 1111011 1111011 1011111 1011100 1111100 1011100 111001 1110101 111001 11101110 1111011 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; de, som, er, med, i, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, kvinden are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).

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