This is an analysis of the poem Korah, Dathan Og Abiram that begins with:

Thronen under Kerubimer,
Arken under Kirke-Telt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XbXbXX XXXcXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXaXbX XdebXX XfXfXX XXXbee ecXXXX XXeXXX XaXXXX XXXgXh XgXXeX XXXbXX hedeXa XXXXXX XaXXXX XbeXXX XXXXXX iXhXii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101000 101011 10111010 110111 111110 11111 111001 1111101 1010111 1110111 111111 1011 111000 111000 11111 10111 1111111 1010 11101 111100 1011111 110010 1011101 11101 0110110 101111 11100100 101111 10101110 101000 10101100 111101 1110101 101001 111111 01100 1001110 1101101 1011001 11111 1011101 11101 111011 111111 11110 111111 1011101 0111 101111 1110100 111101 111111 1111 10101 1011110 111111 101110 1111110 10011110 111100 110101 1111 101111 101011 10110010 11110 0111101 1011111 10011110 0110111 1111110 111110 11111100 111111 11111 111101 0111110 111010 1011101 111111 01101100 101101 0011111 1110 10111010 101111 10111010 1011011 1101110 111010 11011010 111111 1011101 11111 101111 1111 11101110 111010 101110 1111100 10101110 101110 11101010 111101 1111111 1011101 1111111 01101 1111110 11011 101110 1010101 1010111 11101 10111110 1111100 11111110 1011101 1011101 1101 101011 1011110 11110 101101 1011011 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; i, og are repeated.

    The author used the same word moses 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 iet, nder, de are repeated).

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