This is an analysis of the poem Digtersfinxen that begins with:
Jeg, hvem er jeg?
Til visse Tider i hver en Alder...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X AXbbXXcXbXX AaXX XXXXdXe XXeXX XXXXb XXXXX XXXXX cXXXXXXXX XXXX eXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX fXXX XXXXX XXXX dXXX XXX XXf cc XX XXXX XXXXXX XXcXd XXXX XXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XcXcXcXc XXXX XXXXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,4,7,5,5,5,5,9,4,5,7,5,4,8,4,5,4,4,3,3,2,2,4,6,5,4,4,7,8,8,4,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 111011110 110101110 1110111 10011111 11001011 1111 11011111 111100110 111 11011111 111 111011110 111111110 1111010 1101111 1111110 1111 1100011000 111 1111011111 110010111 1011 1101 11010 10111 111101100 1011 11011100 1100 100100100 111011000 1101 1101110010 110 111111100 1100 01101 11101111 111101101 111101110 110 111101111 101111010 11000 111001100 1100011110 10110 110001110 101001100 111 11010 11011001 11010 110001110 111101111 1100010010 11110 11111010 11001110 11111010 11011110 1110 1011011010 1100011100 110111110 1111011100 1011011010 11100111 11101100 110101111 11011101 1001 101101011 111101111 101101100 1111 111111110 111 1111110 1110 1110111 1110 11011010 1101 11001101 1101 110101100 1101 11010111 111011010 1111101 11011111 1100 11111100 1110 111110101 1101 1111001110 11000110 0110110 1111 11001010 1110011010 1101 11100011 110100101 1101 1111011011111 1101011111111110 111111101 110101101 1101111101 0111 1011111010 1011 10001010 1111 110101001 111 11101111 1110 11010 1100 110101101 101101100 11101001 11011101 111111100 1101111010 1101 10010111 11011111 11111101 111111101 100011010 11011000 110101110 10111011 1000011010 11111 1101011010 11101110 111 111111111 1101 111110110 1110 1111011110 11110 1111111000 1110 11111111 1111 01111100 1011 11011101 1111 11111110 111 11010111 1101 1101010110 1101111100 11111100 111111110 111101110 1001001101 110101111 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 33
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 170
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, og, l, jeg, dig, sin, de, lyst, til, af are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, min, og, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same words til, jeg, hvis 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 ver, rt, rig, de are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.
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- summary of Digtersfinxen;
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