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

Over sagtelig glidende Strand har jeg draget dem hen,
gennem langt ud sig vidende Land har jeg skikket dem frem,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXbBXXX XXcX XcXX XXXXXXXXX AXbBXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,4,4,9,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101111011 10111101111011 01110111010 011101111110110 110110101101111 1111010111101 10011110001 1010111110101 1010111111001 1010110111101110 10101101111101111001 0110111110101 11111111111111 011111111011 111101101011 10111111011011 110111111011 1110110100101 1110111111001 1011111111110110 1111111111111 101101111101 11011110110001 101101111001 10100101111011 10111101111011 01110111010 011101111110110 110110101101111 1111010111101 10011110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; der, det, skummelt, at, er, og, jeg, om, d, min are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, det, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gud, d are repeated).

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