This is an analysis of the poem Hyrderne Ved Bethlehem that begins with:
Nat i Østen er ei saa lang
Som her ved Juletider,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXb XcXXaX dXXXee XXfXXX XXXXXX gXcXhh XcXXXX cXgXcc XXXXXX XXgXXe XbXXXX XgXXXX XXdXXX XXXXXX XXXXaX aXaXXX fXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1011000 11101011 1110110 11101011 11110100 10111101 1101110 1011111 1101010 11011011 110111110 10111101 111100 1111111 111111 11011111 111111111 1011111 110111 1111101 100111 110111100 11011111 10101111 110111 101111 11111 01111111 11110111 10111101 111101 111011 111111 11111111 10101001 1010111 011110 1111111 0101110 110100111 11001101 11101100 111010 1111101 11011010 11011111 1110111 11010110 111111 11100100 111111 110111100 10101110 1010110 1111010 11111 1101110 100111101 110101011 10101101 1101110 1111111 111110 110111100 11101101 1101101 1111 11011100 1101110 111101101 11111100 1011101 100111 111010111 110100 11110110 011101101 10101101 110111 1011011 110111 110110100 1111101 111101 110111 110111 1101110 111110111 11100100 10101101 1111110 10101101 1111000 11111111 111110 1001101 11110 10010111 110101 11001000 110000100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; ei, det, og, af, st, har are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, hvor are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rk, st, gud are repeated).
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