This is an analysis of the poem Nazareth Og Bethlehem that begins with:
Nazareth og Bethlehem!
Jesu Vugge, Christi Hjem!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXbbcX dXXdXXXX XXXXbbXe eXbXXXXc XXXXXXXX AXXeXXeX XXXXffXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 101101 1011100 101111 1111101 1011101 1110111 111010 01111 1110110 110100 101111 1101101 110101 1100111 101011 110111 101111 1110101 11101 1101101 1011101 111111 1011111 101111 101111 110100 11101 1011100 111111 1110111 11111 1010101 1001101 111101 111111 10111110 10011100 1010001 1111111 1001101 101101 1011101 11111 1111111 101101 1111 1011100 1110111 111101 111100 1010101 1110110 01101110 111111 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 57
- 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:
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; og, de, min are repeated.
The author used the same word hvergang 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 de, d are repeated).
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