This is an analysis of the poem Herrens Daab that begins with:
Ved Jordans Færgestæder,
Med Røst som Skyens Døn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXc XbXb XXXX XXXX XaaX XXaX dadX XXXe XXXf XXXa XXXX dXdX XXXg XfeX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX gXXX XXXg XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010 11111 11101 11011 11101 111101 110010 11001 111111 101111 111100 10101 1111010 110011 1101010 111101 101101 11110 111110 11011 111110 110011 1001110 100001 1101110 100111 1101110 111111 10110 101101 110110 111100 110110 11101 0101010 0111 11110 111010 111110 110111 111100 111111 110100 110101 110110 11111 111100 11101 110111 111101 111101 11011 111101 111100 111111 110100 111101 110011 110111 111101 1111110 110101 110110 11001 11111 111100 110110 111101 11111 111111 111111 111111 11111 01011 11110 10111 101111 110111 111101 111101 11111 11111 11111 110111 11110 101111 11111 100111 010111 110111 111101 111101 10011 11011 001111 100101 11111 110101 110011 110100 111111 11101 11101 111101 111101 110001 11011 11011 11011 11011 11101 010101 11101 01111 110110 110111 1111110 110101 1111010 111001
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 147
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; de, i, var, vil are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, de, han are repeated.
The author used the same words hvad, saa, han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Herrens Daab;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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