This is an analysis of the poem Palmesøndag that begins with:
Herre min Gud, hvor vi alle er fattige!
Mens jeg gaar og længes efter min Elskede,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXX XXXaX XXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXbXXX aXXXXX bXXXXXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,5,4,6,4,13,6,7,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111010 1111110110 1111110011101010 111111 111011100 1101011011001101 110111100 1110011001110010 11101000110101 0111110010 10100011011000110 10011110100 1111111 110111100110 101011101 10101110 11110 111001100010111 11101001111000 1111101011111 111100 1110011100 1011100 1111100 111101110 1111110 111100100 11111101 111110111011100 1011101011010 11 1111110011000 1111111 10111000 110111 0101 11111110 11011 1010111010 110110010 1110011001 11100010100 11011111 100110110000 11000011110 100011 1111011101 1111110111000 10110010 100100 111100 0111100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; finder, smukt, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines smukt, ungdom are repeated).
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- summary of Palmesøndag;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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