This is an analysis of the poem Jærtegnet I Bethanien that begins with:
Lazarus laae paa Sotteseng,
Systrene klagede Nøden,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXAAX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXbXAAX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10011100 10101 1001111 100111 101011 1011001 1011101 1001111 1110110 10011100 11111000 10011111 111001 10101111 1011100 1011111 1011001 10101101 110111 1001111 10100110 1001111 1111110 1110111 10011110 1111111 10110110 10111101 111001 10011101 10111 1110110 11111 1111101 11111 11100110 111000 10110111 11111100 1101101 1011001 11100111 1011001 101011 1011001 1011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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:
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; n, de, og are repeated.
The author used the same word hvor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).
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- summary of Jærtegnet I Bethanien;
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- idea of the verse;
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