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

Veziren.
Befaler Eders høie Majestæt,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aXXXabbXXXXXa aXcXXXXXXXXdX XbXbXXeXXceefbXXedXX aXX XgXh aXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXiaX aXXX XgaXb aJ XfXkXXcXXgcXXaX aXX XgXX aXJ XaXa aX Xb aX Xj XXX XkXX aiX XcefXXXXXXX aXX XbXX aXX Xll agXXXXXb XX aXXXX XXXXX abXXXXXdXXX XXXX XX aXXi Xa aX XXX aX XdXX a
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,13,13,20,3,4,3,18,4,5,2,15,3,4,3,4,2,2,2,2,3,4,3,11,3,4,3,3,8,2,5,5,11,4,2,4,2,2,3,2,4,3,5,3,17,2,4,10,2,5,13,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 10010110 11111011 100 111011110 1111011111 11011111 1101011111 111010100 110111110 1111101010 11111111000 10011111011 110011101 11111111 100101011011111001 100 111111111 1111111010 111101111 11111111100 110111011 1100111100 100111110 11001101110 111010111 110111011 1101111101 111101111 10 10100110 1101111110 1101110010 1111110000 10110101 11010111 11101111110 11110011110 1110011101 1101011111 1101110101 1101100111 11110101110 1111111 111101111 1111111 11101111 111111111 100101111101000 100 11111111 11011111110 10 111001101 11111011010 1111101111 100 1111110111 1101110101 10 1110110 111101110 111111100 111111111 101101100 1111111111 1101010000 110010111 110111101 1111010011 11010111110 1101111111 1101111110 1101010110 1101110101 111110111 111111110 100 1110111111 011111100 1001100 10 11 11010100110 110111110 11111110 100 1111 10 110111 11011111 110111110 1101011101 1011110110 11111111 11011101 11011101110 1101011111 111111111 11101101110 010011101 111100110 1111011110 100 1011010111 1111111100 10 11111111011 111111101 1011111101 100 111101111 1111 10 110110 1111110 1011101 100 11 10 11010 100 110 1010 1 10010 110110011 1111011100 10 1101111010 1101110111 11111110 100 11111111 11111111010 10 101111111 111110101 111101011 111111111 11011010 1111101101 1011000111 110111111 1101010110 1101111100 100 1111101111 10111101 10 110110110 11011011110 1111 100 11110 1111111000 100 1101111111 1011 100 111111 111101000 100111100100101101010 1010010100 111101100 1111110 1110111110 10 1111110111 100 110000101 11111101 1110011100 1011 1010 11010 11111010 11111101 111101010 100 1101110110 1101111000 11010111000 100101111 010101111 110101110 1111111 11111111 111111100 1101110010 100 100110 1111011100 11010011010 10 111111 100 1011001100 1100110011 111 1001 11011 100 11010 100 110110 1101 100 110000 100 111110101 11011011 111 100 1110 110101101 100 110101100 1100111101 111001000 11101 100 111101 110100 100 110 111011101 11111111110 110101110 11011010 101110011 110110001 1100011110 111011100 110110100 1111000111 1111010100 1111001 1001111110 111101001 111111110 100 111000101 100 111 10111111 1101110101 100 110011100 10111011 11111111 110101000 1101111101 11111110100 1100111101 111111111110 11110010 100 111010110 100 1101101111 1111101100 111111111 1111110 100 1111011101 1100100111 1101110111 11011111 111111110 10011100110 1110010110 1111111101 11011101 11110111011 111111111 11011111110 100 1111001111 111111010 11111111010 111110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 33
  • Amount of lines: 282
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; det, har, jeg, han, den, og, eet, er, i, ski, en, delsteen, hvis, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, soliman, det, som, og, vidt, at, en, hvis are repeated.

    The author used the same word soliman 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 glas is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word n at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Divan;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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