This is an analysis of the poem Kirken Det Er Et Gammelt Huus that begins with:
Kirken det er et gammelt Huus,
Staaer, om end Taarnene falde,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaX XXXXXXX bcbXbbX XXdXXdX XXXXXbX XXXXXXX XXXXXeX baXXeXX dcdXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101101 111101 110111 101111 1110111 1111111 111101 10111110 11111 1100111 1111011 11110100 1111111 111011 1011111 101101 1101111 111010 111111010 111111 111111 1111111 1001110 11111101 1011101 11111101 1011111 11010110 10111111 111101 1110101 1111011 1011111 10011000 11111100 101111 111001 11011111 0111011 1011101 10111111 11110010 10110111 1011001 1111111 10111 1111111 10110111 1011110 1111111 101101 101001101 111111 10111111 11110111 111101 101101011 101101 11110111 111010 1101011 1101111 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; paa, os are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase kalde connects the lines.
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