This is an analysis of the poem Bethlehemsstjærnen that begins with:
Med fornem Blinken, aandssløv Plirren staar
spredt over Himlen Millioner Stjærner,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXaXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXba cXXccXXc dXXdXXXd bXXXXXXb XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXceec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101101 110101001 111111011 11111101 1101011101 1101011100 11001101 110001100 11111001 1110111110 1111101100 11101111 11111111 1111111110 110111000 1101110101 11111111 1101111000 11001101100 1101110101 11101111 1101010111 111110001 1101000100 11111100 1111011 1111111 1111010001 110111101 11111110 110111101 111111101 11010111 110111010 11010101110 11111001 111110001 11111011 1101010011 1101110101 111010101 11011111010 11110101110 1101110001 110111111 11000110010 1100011010 11010011 110101111 111111110 1110100010 1111111 111011101 1101010101 1111011101 1101011111 1101110101 1101110111 11101101 110110101 11111101 1101011010 1111111000 110111101 110111110 1111011111 11111011 11111111 1101111101 11010110010 101111110 110111100 1101011100 11101101010 11011110 0101101011 1101011101 11111111 11101111 1111110 1110010101 100111010 1101111100 10101111 11010111011 1101111010 11011110 110111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 316
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 90
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; de, v, af, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word og 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 rner, de, v, rne, mme, lger, der are repeated).
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- summary of Bethlehemsstjærnen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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