This is an analysis of the poem Til Valmuen that begins with:

For dig, hvis Saft fra tusind Penne flyder,
Hvis Duft besjæler mangen Rimesmed,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XaXX XXbX XXXX cXXX XXXX XbXX XXXc XXXX XdXd eaeX XbXX efXf XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110110 111010100 101111110 11011111 110101010 111110010 111111011110 1111000110 110111111 1101111101 11010110 1111111101 0101110111 1111011101 01111111 11011011 11110100100 1101111100 111111100 1111101111 1011110101 11110001 110110001 1100001001 0111111110 10011010 0111111100 100111100 10111101110 1100111101 1111101000 010111010 1100010001 111110110 11110011 0101100111 11100101110 110010011 01011101010 1011011011 111001100 1101111101 11110011010 100011111 1111010010 111111111 11111000010 1110011100 1111110010 111101011 11011110010 110101110 1011100110 101111111 1100010100 110110111 111101111 11111001 111000111 11111110 1101000111 1101011100 1111110101 111110110 1110011010 1111010110 1110101110 111111100 1011110100 011101111100 1101111110 111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, hvad are repeated.

    The author used the same words naar, om at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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