This is an analysis of the poem Freiers Elskov that begins with:

Dybt udi Fieldehallen et Kammer blev han vaer.
En deilig Mø han øined paa Bolstrene, klar;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXaX bXXX cXXd XXeX cXXc ccXX cXXX eeXX XXXX XXXX ffeX ggff XXXX XcXX XXcc hhee gXXf XXii XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX jXXX XXaX XcXX XXkk gXXX jXeX XcXd XXiX Xcbb XXXX hhXX XaXc XXid Xkbb XXXa eeXX ggXg XcXf XcXX XXaX XXXc XXXX XXhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101000110111 11011101101 11111011100 110010110100 110101011011 111111101 11110011011 1111110111 1111111101 11110111011 111011101110 111101001010 11111110101 0111010101 1111111111 11100011001 111111111101 111111111 11001011111 111111100 11111011011 100110110001 11011111011 110101111 11111111111 110111110111 01110101 11100011001 1101010111111 1101110111100 11111011110 1100111010 11101100101 1101101101 11011111110 11110101110 1111110111101 11111111 1111001011 11101110111 111110110111 1111111101 1101110111 100111011001 110010011111 11111111101 1111111001 11110101110 1111111111 1101111101 1101010110001 1111010011001 1111111010 11010111101 1111111100 11011111010 1101101111 11001111011 110111011101 11001100111 110111011011 11111111 110111111111 11110111111 1011010110001 11011011101 11011110111 11010101100 1101110110100 11101011011 110111011111 1111111101 11111111 11110111 1101010110101 111100010111 111100110101 11101110 1011110101100 110001011101 11101111001 111111101 11110011101 100111011011 110110110110 10110111101 011100011001 1111100101 111110101011 10011111110 011110110111 11111011111 0110111011 1111111100 111111111 11111011111 11010110010 010111111111 111110110001 11010100110110 11111011111 11111111001 11011111111 11101011101 110110111101 1111101101 11111011101 11110011001 1111111101 1111111010 110111111101 110111011010 111100111101 1111010110101 1111111101 1110111100 110111011111 10011101101 1100101110110 11010110111 10010101111 11011110111 11111110111 11110110011 111100100111 101101100111 111111011011 100101010111 1111110110101 110110111101 11100111101 11111011101 11101010011 110110100111 1011110111111 11000111111 11101111011 11011011111 111001110101 1100110111101 11011110101 111110111100 111110111110 11111111101101 110111111 11101010111 11110100011 11011111011 111101111111 1111100111101 1111100101110 1111000111101 111010110111 111111111101 11001111101111 1101110110101 11111111101 1101101111 101101011111 111110110111 111110010111 111110110111 1101111111 110110010100 1111111111 1111101101 11111011111 111010111100 111110111101 111101110101 1111110110111 111110111111 110111001111 11111011111 111100011111 111101111101 1111111111 11010110101 11111110100 1100110111001 111010110111 11101001111 01011010111 11000111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; l, som, det, en, han, og, hans, den, de, med, h, hun, maanen, var, d, i, er, jeg, b are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, hun, han are repeated.

    The author used the same word saa 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 dt, d, g, ft, b are repeated).

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