This is an analysis of the poem St. Laurentius that begins with:

Bonden beder med liden Ro,
Naar Regnen slaar paa hans Hue;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa XXXX XXXX XXbX XcXc XXXX dXXe XddX XXXX eXXX XdXX fXfX bXXX XdXd XXXX XdcX XeXe XXXX bXXX XcXc dXXX XXaX bXXX dXeX Xddd egXX XdXX XXdX XXbX XXhX XXhX XXXX XXXX gXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101101 1101111 11011101 110111 111100 1101111 110111111 1100011 10111111 1111000 11011100 1111111 11110101 110101 1111011110 111101 1101111 1101010 1101101101 1110110 1101111 1101011 11010101 111001 1101101101 11011 1010111 110111 111101100 110011 11011111 1111011 1101010 01111 1011111 11111 1101101 111101 1111100 01111 110101101 110111 1111100 111101 0101111 110111 11110111 111101 110011111 111111 11011011 11011 100101100 110111 111111 1101101 1011100 1111011 1011010 11111 10111111 10111 100111110 111111110 111100 11011001 111111 1101111 11100111 101101 11011111 110111 1110011 11111 11011010 110110 1001100 111110 110111101 11011010 11010111 11111 11110110 11011 11111100 111101 11001110 111101 11111111 111110 11001111 011110 11011111 11111 111111 110111 11110100 11111 110010111 1101111 1111111 01101 11011111 110110 1111100 1101111 1111111 10111 1111100 11011 110111001 1111010 1111111 11111 1111101 10111 10111101 01010 110111111 110011 11010101 1101111 1111111 110001 11011111 111101 11111111 111001 11110111 110011 1111111 110001 111111 10101101 1111111 11111 1111111 111101 11111100 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 140
  • 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; var, han, d, skulde, den, jeg, h, og, da are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words han, for, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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