This is an analysis of the poem Et Andet Sted I Staden Mekka that begins with:

Hindbad.
Guds Fred med dig! Propheten signe dig!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa XX XXX XXX XXXbX XX XXXab XX XX XXcX XXdaeXX XXXXfXXgXhXXXeXXXX XXXg XXXX XXe Xa aXiXXX XdXXXXX XeXXfXXXd XXXjXaiXXhXcX XXj XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,5,2,5,2,2,4,7,18,4,4,3,2,6,7,9,13,3,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 111110011 10 11111100 10 011110111 110111010 10 10010010010 101101101 10 110101101 1001110010 110101110 11001111 10 1001 10 11110100 111001111 1101110111 11111111111 10 11011110 10 01110 10 1100 1111111001 110110111 10 111011100 111101 1101100101 1111110111 111011110 10111111 10 1110011101 111111000 1101110110 11100011 11110110110 111111101 11100111 11001001100 011001010 1101001110 1101111110 1001111100 1111110001 10111010111 111111001 111000110 1110111010 10 11011011110 1101011110 00110100110 10 101101111 100101110 1111010100 10 110010001100 10110 10 11111 10101 1011001011 11111111 11110010110 1111000101 1111001010 10 11101111101 1101011100 11010010 0100011101 1011100 110111010 10 10111011 111101010 111111111 01101101 1101111101 1101101010 111110011 1101111 10 11110111000 110110111 10111111 1111111100 111110101 111111010 10111111000 1101110100 1100110110 110111111 1100110111 1111111110 10 111101111 11101111 10 1011010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; er, at, til, jeg, den are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fatime is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fatime connects the lines.

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