This is an analysis of the poem Herrens Dag, Paa Aandens Sprog that begins with:

Herrens Dag, paa Aandens Sprog,
Dommens er tillige,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXX bXbXXaXXX XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 10010 101111 01100 111110 1111101 1111 101111 1001101 1111101 101110 10111 11110 111111 111101 100111 101101 1110 1110111 110010 1011101 11110 10111 1011111 1011101 11011 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; d is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, de are repeated).

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