This is an analysis of the poem Femte Sang that begins with:

Som Vandreren der mat af Sved
Op over Alpetoppe higer,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXaXXXXbcXX dXXdedeX fXfXXggXXXXXXXXh XXXXbXbX XXXXXhhX XXXXXciXXXcX jXXXXXXXXXfX jXjXXXXXkXXX jXXX XcXXXhXl bXXbiggibXbX XXXX XmXXXXXXXmXX XX XX XjXjXXXX XcXXXcXXXXjXXXXXkXXX gXXXXdXd XXXXXXXXXlXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,8,16,8,8,12,12,12,4,8,12,4,12,2,2,8,20,8,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111 11010010 111111100 1101100 11111101 110111100 11111000 111111 11101 10010101 1111111 111111 111101 11110100 11011101 110111 111010 0111110 11110001 11011101 111111 1011110 10010111 11111110 111001 10110101 1110011 1111001 111111 11011101 111001 11111 101101 1111100 1110011 1101101 11110111 1110010 11010101 1111101 11100111 11010111 1101111 1001101 1111001 1111001 1111101 11100111 1111110 11100101 11100100 1101111 11001110 11101011 11010101 10011110 11110111 10010111 10111101 110011 1111100 110101010 1101011 1110100 11010100 110111010 11010110 1110110 111111 1111000 11011111 11000100 11010101 11110 10110 111100010 111010 11001111 1011101 1111101 1101111 111010010 1101111 111100100 1101111 1111000 111100 1110100 1111111 1101101 11011110 1111101000 111111 111011 11110100 11111111 11100111 111111110 1111100 11101110 1110110 11010111 11111101 11010101 111101 1111011 10011101 1000101 111101 1101011 1101011 101101 110111 110100 111111 1101111 10011110 11111101 10111010 1110101 10110101 110101 11001101 1101111 11001101 111101 1111101 111111 1101111 011111 11011111 1111101 1011111 11101110 10110101 1111 111001 0111001 11111 1110111 111111 111111 1111101 11100111 1111110 111100010 110101010 1111101 0111101 111100110 1111111 1101111 1101110 1111010 1111001 1110110 10011101 1111111 1011011 1101101 10110101 111111 11110111 11110110 110111 1111101 1011010 1101101 110011110 011111 11111010 1011010 1110011 11011110 101111000 1101100 1111101 1111011 1101110 11000110 110011010 1101111 1101100 11010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 299
  • Average number of words per stanza: 58
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dem, det, og, min, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words var, og, min, et, en, hvo, med are repeated.

    The author used the same word han 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 re, nner, de are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Femte Sang;
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