This is an analysis of the poem Makulaturens Iris that begins with:

Polypen har nu faaet Hul
I Asenutids-Tylte-Dommen:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX acaX cXXX XcXXcXXc XXXdXXXX eXXXXXXX XcXXfXfX XXgXXXbX XXXXXXXX hXhXXXXX XiXXXXXX XXgXeXeg XXciXaXX XXXXXjXj aXXXXXXX XXaXXXgj eXedXXXX XXXXXaaX XigXgXgX XXXajXXX XXXXcXcX cXXdXXXX XXXXXXXX XXjXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001111 11000110 11010100 110111010 1100110 111001000 11111110 100111010 1101110 11010110 101101 110100110 11111000 1111110 1110100 1101111 11110111 11000110 1101011 111101110 10001111 01110110 1111001 1110111 11110101 1111011 1001011 111111 111101 11011101 11111101 1111101 11011111 110011 11011100 11111 1101111 111011 11110111 11111 11000111 11111 1111111 111111 11010001 1110110 1100011 101110 1111111 11011 11010100 110101 110011 111110 01001101 1101110 11010110 110101 0111010 110111 00110011 11110 1101101 1111010 01011001 11011 1110001 11111 11111110 111111 11011100 111111 11010101 1101110 1111101 1101110 11110100 1101100 11011101 111110 1111111 11111 100111 111001 10000110 01011 11100001 10011 1101111 1111110 11000100 110010 010111 110111 111111 110010 1001001 11110 110111001 1101110 1111111 11111 1011011 110111 11111001 1001110 1101101 111110 1101011 1101110 111111 111110 10010100 11110 10001100 1101010 10111111 110111 1111011 110111 11111001 1101010 11011110 111000 1011111 110111 11110010 011101 111111 11011 11110010 010100 1111101 1101110 11111101 1111110 1111101 110011 11001111 11101 1111111 11111 11011011 010100 10000011 11111 111011 11111 1111011 1110010 11001101 110010 1101101 110010 1100111 111110 1100011 010110 1101001 110110 1101111 1011010 11110100 1111110 11110111 110011 11010111 1110 10111101 1110 1111110 110110 1111011 110111 11010011 100110 1111011 111101 11011000 111101 11010110 1101110 11011111 1101110 111111 1101110 10011110 1101110 110111110 110111 11000011 1101111 01011111 110111010 110011 11111000 11011100 110101110 11011100 110101100 11011101 111001110 11011101 100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 215
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; vi, den, n are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jo, mod are repeated.

    The author used the same word en at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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