This is an analysis of the poem Midten that begins with:

Du har nu havt, Oedip! den Ro, som dig blev lovet,
For ej med Overvæld at gjøre dig konfuus;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XbXX cXXX XXXX XdXd XXXX XXXX XXed eceX XXXX fXXX XXXe XdXd XfXX XdXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX eXeX cXXX XgXX XXXc XhXh XbXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX eXXX XbXX XXXX Xfgf XbXX XXXc XieX XXXX XfXf XXXX XXXX giXi XXXj XdXd XXXX XdXd fbfb XXXX aXXk XXXg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111101111110 1111011110 0111111100 11011111100111 111101110111 1011111101 1101011110 11100111101 11110001011111 11101110100 111101110111 11111111101 1101001111100 11111111111111 1111111111110 1111111111111 110101111 1111001100 1101011111100 111111010 110101111110 010101111010 111000111010 10111110101 111110100 11101001011 1111101101011 111100111011 111111111111 11111101101 111111110011 1111111111 110010111100 011110111110 11110111101100 110111110011 1001011111100 1111110100 111110111110 101010110001 110001111110 111110110001 1101011111010 11110111111 11100110111 1111011111110111 1111111110100 11111100110100 1101111110110 110100110111111 111111110010 110111110 1110111011 11101110111 111101111101 0111011101110 111001111010 11111110001 111101110010 1111101111 1011011001 110100110010 10100110111 111000111110 10101100111 10010110011 1101111101 1101010111100 110100111100 111011011 110111101101 1111011010 1001011111 1111011111 011111110111 111101111101 010111111100 111111101 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11000110101 1001011001100 111111110100 110101101110 111111101001 110101110111 111111111011 11111111001 11110111111101 1101111111010 1111111101 110011111010 101101111011 111100111010 1101111011 1111101101010 01111111000 110011111001 111111100101 101101110111 1110111011 1110011111010 11010011111 1111001100110 11011101101 1111001011110 110000110010 1111111111010 10111110111 110111111111 110101110110 111101111111 1111101100 11111101101010 1111111011 111111101100 111101110101 11010011011 11011110100 11110111110 111111110111 11010110111 1101001110 111111101111 10110111101 11111011111 1101111111 111101100110 11110111101 111101100110 110011110011 11111111100 011100100101 11110111110 1111111111 10011101010 11001101101 110111111110 111101110001 11111100100 11010011111 1101111101110 111111111001 111110101100 11111111011 10110111011111 101101100111 10110011011 1001011001 10110111111 1111100010111 110100111111 11100111111 110011111 110101110101 11111110111 11111111111111 111110101100 1101011001 11111011101 01011100101 111011011000 1110111101 1101011000010 111010010011 11111011011 010101101111 111111110100 010101100011 111111101100 110001110000 1111101001010 110001110101 101101101001 100101111001 110001001 11011110111 100100110101 110111111 11100110111 11111100011 11111111111 10011111110 1111011001010 1100110011111 1110111100 111000110101 1111011010000 110100111111 1101011110010 1111111101 111011101010 1110011111 11111111011 1101111111 1110111011 11111011111 1111011100010 110001010101 11110011010 111101111001 11011010011 11111110101 11001111101 111111110 1100111100110 110101110100 100111101000 110111111000 11101111111100 1101111111 1011100101000 011001110010 1111011111 1110111111 11000111111 11111110110 1110111101 111111010111 11001110001 11011110001 110101111 11010100101 11110111101 101010101010 110111111110 1111010011 110001101110 110101100101 1110111100 101101110011 1001011111 110100100111 1011010100111 1111111101 11111101 1110011110 11111100111010 110101111000 11110110110 111001101 1101011101000 11110011010 111110101100 111101110110 11110110111 11110111011 10111110111 1011111111 111111110110 11011010011 11011111010 11101110101 11001101011 111111110101 1111001110001 1101111101010 1011011101110 11010001111 110111111000 11011010111 111111011010 10111110001 111101111010 1011110110 10100011111 111110101101 110111110111 1110011011 10101111111 111110111101 111110110011 1110001111011 10101110111 1111111101101 110111111011 010111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 109
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 436
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, er, og, med, hvert, i, det, ski, ndt, min, mit, jo, mig, man, som, en, snart, paa, for, var, f, den, at, kan, saa, l, jeg, r, skj, hver, naar are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words af, ski, mit, jo, den, snart, at, er, saa, skj, omsonst, det, og are repeated.

    The author used the same words man, jeg, det, er, saa, skj at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Midten;
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