This is an analysis of the poem Apollo Den Syttende that begins with:

For fire Sekler siden (fire Aar
Er fast en Evighed i vore Tider)...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbXXXXXXcXXXXXXdXXXXeXXXXXX XffXXX ghXgXXXbX iiXXXXXXXd XdXXXXXXhXXXXXXX XeXX cXXc XXXXeX XbbXXXXX XabXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,6,9,10,16,4,4,6,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010101 0111001110 111110111 11011100 1111001011 11001000 110111010 110100 10011101 1110010 11011110010 110011001 11011100 1100110101 11011101010 111111011 110010 111000100 11111111101 1101110011 1001110011 111111101 1100111110 1101110100 11111110110 1111110011 111011101 1100110101 1111111110 1111100010 1111110010 101100011 111010110 1101010111 11100111 101100010 1001110110 111001111 11111110111 11110110101 1111 100001100 110111111 111010111010 111111111 11010011010 1000100100 1101101 1111011111 11110111101 1101111 110111111 1100110111 1101010111 11101111 1111011110 11001111 1111111100 101111 11010011100 1001100111 1110001011 110111011 110111101 1100010 110011 1101111100 1101110110 11110100 111111011 011111 1111011101 111011101 11011101 100111101 110101 110101110100 1111010011 11010111 111001101 1111010111 1101110110 11101101 0111101 11011111111 111110011 1110100 1101010100 11100110 1110010010 1100111 11011111111 110110010011 11101 11011110100 1111011100 11111011001 111110110 0111010100 1010111100 110010101 11110111111 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 383
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; jeg, for, og, re, at are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, til, et are repeated.

    The author used the same word for 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 mmer, re, nder are repeated).

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