This is an analysis of the poem Dend Ix. Sang that begins with:

O JEsu, paa din Alter-food
Med Hiertens Troo, med Bøn og Bood...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX Xbcc XXaa aaXX XXXb XXXX XXbX XdXX XXbX bXaa aacX XXXX XcXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 11011111 111111 11110111 11111111 11011101 11011101 1111101 10111101 111101 11011111 11111001 01011101 11011101 11011101 1110101 11111101 11101101 11111101 11010101 11111101 10111100 1111011 111111011 11110110 1111000 1101111 00110001 1011011 00111001 1011111 01111 10111111 11110111 11111111 10111111 11111111 1111011 1111101 11111110 11101101 11110101 1011110101 1011111111 11011101 1100011 1011111101 111111100 11011101 11110011 11011101 111010 1001110 1011111 111111 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; d, er, hand, det, min are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word det 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 r, d, t are repeated).

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