This is an analysis of the poem Den Jyske Lyng that begins with:
Her har jeg staaet i tusinde Aar,
Sust for de Slægter, der svinder og kommer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXba XcXc XXXX XdXX XXXX eXeX XXXa XXXX XXXX XdXd XXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 1101110110 101011101 1010111010 101101111 101111110 101101101 10111110 111101011 11111101 10111111 110101111 1000111 10101101 1001011111 111111011 101101111 11111010 101001010 11101101 111111011 1111111001 11101101 11111001 111111011 11111111 11110111111 1110011011 111111001 111111101 1111111101 10111100110 11111101 11110110110 1011111 111111010 101111011 1111011011 111011011 1110110010 111101001 11011101 11111011011 11111101 111111100 11110111 110111001 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sp, om are repeated.
The author used the same word sp at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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