This is an analysis of the poem Jesus! Dine Dybe Vunder that begins with:

Jesus! dine dybe Vunder
Og din smertefulde Død,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 111001 11100100 111111 1111101 11111111 1111100 1111100 111011 11110111 1111111 101111 110111 111111 111111 1111101 1110110 11101 1110101 101101 1010100 111101 1111111 111101 1111101 11101 1111111 101111 1011111 1100111 11111100 1101100 11111010 111111 1111110 111111 1110101 101111 11111010 11111110 111111111 1000101 111101 111101 111111 101111 1111110 11101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; d, nker are repeated.

    The author used the same word vil 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 mme, nker, d are repeated).

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