This is an analysis of the poem Johannes' Aabenbaring that begins with:

Johannes var Vorherres Ven,
Han havde store Syner,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbX XXXXXXX acaXXdX XXbeXXX XXcXXXX XXfXXbX XXXXXXd XXXXXXe XXXebbX XXXXXXX XXXaXXX XghXXXi XXXXXXX hXXXddX XXXXfXX XdXdXXXbXcgiXX aXXXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,14,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011001 11110 1101111 111110 1111011 11001011 11111 01011101 110111 10111010 111011 11110111 1111001 1111110 1111111 110110 11011101 11011 1111001 10101101 111100 11111110 1111010 10001101 11110 1101111 1110100 110111 11111001 11111 1111111 11101 11111101 1111111 1111010 11011101 111111 11101101 10011 1011111 11110111 110111 01010111 1011110 1101111 1111000 11110111 11011110 1000101 1111111 111011 1010010 111111 111011 11110100 1101110 0110101 1011000 1101101 1111110 11111101 11111101 1111100 0101111 11111 1111111 11111 11010101 1101011 11110 11011101 0111 11010101 10101 1101101 111111 110101 11010100 1111 11010100 111111 11101101 111111 110111 11011101 110011 111111 011110 11111 111111 111101 1101101 111101 11011100 11111 11010100 1101111 1101010 111111 110111 111111 010111 111011 1101010 110101 1111101 110110 1101011 111110 1111101 11011010 111010 111111 10101 11011101 1111 1111110 1101101 1100010 110111 010111 1101111 111111 11010101 1111100 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; st, og, hans, som, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, den are repeated.

    The author used the same words johannes, hans, den 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 st, d, rk, r are repeated).

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