This is an analysis of the poem Sangværket that begins with:

Thomas Kingo er Psalmisten
I det Danske Kirke-Kor,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXX XXXXXX aXaXXX XbXXXX XXXbXX bXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100100 11111 11101110 1110111 11111100 1111100 01101110 111011 11100110 111110 11111 001101 101111 1100100 11111 1111101 111011 1111001 10111 1010011 111011 111001 1110110 1011110 11101010 1110011 1111100 1010111 110111 1010111 101101 0110100 1110111 1011100 111111 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 37
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; hans, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hans is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der, ie are repeated).

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