This is an analysis of the poem Ruth that begins with:
I Dommertiden i Bethlehem
Var Hungersnød,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXbXXXX XXXXbbaXXXc bXbXbXXbXXX XXXXbXXcXXb cXXdaXXXXXX XXabXXXXXXX XdXXbXdXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXbXXX ebXXdXXfXfX XXXXXXXXXXe eXeXXXXXcXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001101 110 111101111 1101 110001101 110101111 0101111 1110111 11111 111101 11101 11101101 111 110101111 1101 11111111 1111111 10110110 110111100 01101 010111 111101 1111111 011 11111101 1100 110101111 11001100 011111110 1111111 11111 110111 11101 11111101 1111 111101101 111 100101111 1110111100 110011101 11101110111 1111 110111 111101 11011111 1111 11011011 1111 111101101 11100101 110110111 11111111100 11011111 110111 110101 11111101 111 11101101 1111 11111111 11011101 110111111 110111101 111111 101111 111111 110001101 111 11101101 1111 1011111 11011111 111011101 11111110 11111 110110 111110 11101111 110 11110111 1110 1111111 10110111 01111011 11011101 111111 11101 111111 1011111 1101 11110111 101111 110101111 111111111 110010111 110111101 111111 1111010 11111 11010111 1011 110111 110 111111101 1101101111 110011001 1101100110 111110 011110 110100 110110111 1111 1111111 1111 11010101 110101101 01101111 1101101101 110111 111101 11011 11111111 1001 11111101 111 111101110 11101100 110011100 11111111 111101 110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 326
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 135
- 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; er, i, og, har, hans, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, med, de, han, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lger, ger, rt, st, n, ie, re are repeated).
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- summary of Ruth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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