This is an analysis of the poem Moses I Ørken that begins with:

Der gik en Hyrde og vogted Faar,
I Midians Land i Ørken,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX Xaaa XXXX XbXX cXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXd XXXc cXeX cXXX XXXX cbcb XcXX aXaX XXXX XaXX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XfgX XeXe XcXX XXXX XXcd geXe XXcX XXXX XdXX XXXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111101 110111 11001101 11011110 1111101 1001110 100111111 1111110 111001101 111110 1111111 11111110 1111100 111111 11111101 1101111 111101101 1111010 11101101 1111000 11110111 1101111 11010111 110111 11110111 1000011 111101101 11111 110101100 110011 01010100 100110 1000011 010111 1100111 101111 110111111 11011010 101101111 1101111 11110111 011111 1111101 111101 111110101 1110111 111111100 110011 11001100 0101111 1111111 1101111 111101111 110111 111101111 10111 11111101 1101101 11101101 1001100 110001111 1101111 111101101 1101110 110001110 1101111 010101101 1011111 110101101 101101 110101010 11111 111011111 1111101 111111101 011111 110111001 111110111 11111101 11111110 11110110 1101111 11111101 1101111 111111 111101 1111011 110111 1110111100 1111110 1111110 1101110 111101110 1110111 1111101 1111010 110111100 111101 110101111 1011111 11111111 1101101 11101100 100111 11111111 111111 1111111 1011011 11010111 1011011 11111111 1101111 11010111111 11110111 111101110 111111 110101111 1101011 110101101 111101 11101101 1110110 111101011 11011110 11011111 111111 11011101 1101111 1111100 1101111 11011111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 143
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; som, ham, og, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, som, da, og are repeated.

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