This is an analysis of the poem Til Hans Kongelige Høihed Prinds Christian Frederik that begins with:

Prinds, som de trende Livets Huldgudinder
Velsignende har alt i Vuggen kyst,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXaXXXXb XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX bXXbcXb XXXXXXXXdXXXbXXXcXX XXXXeXfXXXXX XXXXXXbXXXXf XXXXccXeXXXggXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX gdXgX XXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,18,7,19,12,12,31,5,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101000 100111101 1111110110 1101100100 110010011 0101011001 1010010100 1111001 1001011110 111010100 1101010001 1111100100 111101101 1111111 0110010100 10001111 11101100 11001111 111101101 11011111 111011100 111110100 11111101 0111010011 1111011100 111011001 0111011111 0111111111110 0110011001 1100001100 11111110 10110111010 111100011 11001101100 1101111010 1101110111 111001101 111100011 11100011 11111101110 100111011 111011 011111 1011111011 1111011001 101111001 11111101 1101001111 111101110 1110011111 110110101 011110111 111111100 101110101010 1111100110 010111111 01110010100 110101011 11110110 111000011 0101001100 1101110001 1101011100 101100011 111011011 11011100100 11010101 110001011 1101001101 1101010010 111001111 1111010110 1111110011 1001010101 1110110101 111001101 010111101 1100011001 1111011101 11011111 10111011 110101101 11101010 111101001 1001101101 1110101100 111111101 111111111 1110011 111101111 111101011 111111011 1110111010 110110101 110111011 111010010 1111111 110011111 1100111101 10110011 1111000101 101111010 1101100010 1101110010 1001111100 111110011 11011110 110111100 111111101 11111001 110111110110 11111101 11110101 1101010111 1001010111 1010001100 11111011 11111011 1111101100 010010111 111101011 1101110011 11111001 110101111 11111101 1101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 542
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; og, som, hvis, en, med, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, end, du, hvis, med are repeated.

    The author used the same word hil 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, mper, rdig, gt, dre are repeated).

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