This is an analysis of the poem Bernhard Severin Ingemann that begins with:

Reen uskyldig kun Du leved for dit ædle Digterkald.
Derfor Danmark aldrig glemmer Dig, sin elskelige Skjald;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aaXX XXXX XXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001010111100 10101010111001 10110111111111 1111111101 11111000101111 101110101111101 1110011101101 111110101010 11111101111001 11110001011101 10101101011001 100110101011111 1101101110111 1011110101111 10001000110111 1010110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 219
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, du, skal are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines m is repeated).

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