Jeg Har Et Helgenskrin I Hus by Viggo Stuckenberg: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Har Et Helgenskrin I Hus that begins with:

Jeg har et Helgenskrin i Hus,
af Uvejrssus,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXabXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXccX aaddXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 1100 1101 11110100 1111010 101011100 1101 111111110 11110101 111 111 1110101 11111110 11011101 110 11111110 11111 1011 110 1111001 1111110 1101111111 1111 1101110 1111011 1101 1111 11111100 111111 11111101 1101 11111101 11111100 1100 111101 1111111101 110101 11110111 1111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; af, d, gnets, saa, et, en, smil, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words af, og, saa, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, r, smil, er, liv are repeated).

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