This is an analysis of the poem I Løvens Tegn that begins with:

Nu tager Somren Stormhat paa
og Solsandaler for at gaa...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXa XXXXX XXXXX aaXaX XXbXb aXaaX XXXXX cXXXX XXXXX XcXXX XXXXX XXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11000111 11110000 11001001 011011 111010 110111010 111111010 11110111 1111 1111110 1110111 1111111 11011101 1111101 111101 1101011 1001011 110110101 111111 11010111 11001110 111111010 1111100 11011010 11110111 110111 11100111 111101101 1111100 11111100 1111100 11011101 010100101 110101 11111111 1111100 11011011 111100 111110 1111011 11010111 1111110 11011111 110111010 11001100 11010111 11111110 1111101 1111101 101110 111011 1111110 10000101 11110100 1101010 11011111 11011010 1101110101 10100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; r, til, og, gt are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    The author used the same word nu 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 r, gt are repeated).

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  • history of its creation;
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