Du Zeus, Som Sidder Solen Næst by Viggo Stuckenberg: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Du Zeus, Som Sidder Solen Næst that begins with:

Du Zeus, som sidder Solen næst!
det hænder stundom hver og en...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXb XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01110101 1110111 1111111 1111101 1111111 1110101 1111101 1110011 1111110 11111 1110101 11111101 11111111 01011101 111110111 11110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; d, 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 at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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