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

Selim.
Der er Aladdin! Saa, nu kan vor Leeg...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa bX XX bXXXXXX XXX Xc XX bb XXd bX XX bX XX bXe XXXX bd XXXb XX XfX bg XdXXb bXXX XXchiXXXaXXXbcX XX XcXXXXg bX XbXXXXXX bjXchXb XXXX bXXX XXX bXXkXXXXX XXX bXeXXXiXX Xb bX XXX bX XXX bX XX bi XX bX XXfk Xd iX bc XdXXXg bb XXXX blbX XXh bX XXX XXXXdX b
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,7,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,2,2,3,4,2,4,2,3,2,5,4,15,2,7,2,8,7,4,4,3,9,3,9,2,2,3,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,4,2,2,2,6,2,4,4,3,2,3,6,3,5,5,4,2,4,4,7,2,5,6,16,11,11,2,7,4,3,4,10,3,4,3,5,4,6,20,8,11,4,2,6,5,2,4,5,3,2,5,4,6,33,3,2,4,2,22,12,7,4,19,2,9,2,8,3,3,2,2,3,3,2,3,2,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 1001011111 101 010 1101000 10 11011 010 101 111000101 110001101 1111110110 111011111 11010001110 10 110111111 1111110100 01011000 110 10 1110011 010 1100011 10 110 101111 010 11111 10 111 010 111111 10 1101111110 010 1111111010 1111101110 10 111111101 1101101010 1100001100 010 1101 10 001111 11011111 110110101111010101 10 00110100 10 11 1101101011010100010 010 1111011110 10 01011111 11111110 111111111 011010111011011101110 010 111111101 1111011010 11000100011010111111 10011 1111111 1101101110 110101111 11110101111 10111010 1101100111 1111111101 101010111 110011001 1101111101 11110011111 111010 11111100 11111 010100 11 100 1111111010 11011101100 11110111 100111100 11010011 11000 010 101 100 111 1011011010 1101101011 100010111 11001011010 111111100 111011100 010 1101100111 111110001101 1011010110 01111111 1111010011 111101111 100 11101111 1111110000 100111111 010 1111110101 1000111010 111100 100 1111 110110111 010 10111111110 110110110 111011111 11111110 1110111110 1111000111 11101101110 111110 100 11 111 010 11101 11111111110 1111011111 11111111010 11010111110 11111111 11111100 1011110111 100 11011101111 010 111100 100 110100 1111 010 1111 100 11111 1100 010 1111 100 1001010110 010 1101 100 11101 010 110 100 11001 11110111 111110111 010100 101101101 1001001 110 010 1010110 100 110010010 0101011111 110111111 11110111010 111100 010 010 100 10 1111111011 110111001 010 10011 1111111111 111101011 100 11010110 1111111101 010 01101111 100 010101101 1110001110 1 1101101110 1111111010 01111111 111111111 1101010100 010 1101101100 111 1 10100100 111 110111111 1101011111 010 110110111 11011011110 110111 11111 1 011 11111101011 111111111 010 1101 1 11110 11001101010 1101010101 010 1110111111 111111111 1111111110 1 100110110010 111011111 1110110110 1011011101 111111111 1011111101 010 11001111111 1 1100111011 111101111 101001101110111010 1101110111 010101 1001101001011 111011101 11100111110 111011110 11 1 1111011011 11111110 11110111 1111111110 1100011100010 1111110101 111101110 10010 101100111 111011101 11101111 1110110111 1101110101 1111010111 1101111001 110111111 1111111111 111111111 1011101111 1111011101 11011111 11101111 111111101 11101111 110111011 1101110101 1101010 1011111111010 11111110 111101101 0101111101 1111111 111101110 11010111011 1111100110 110111101 11111111 010 1110 100 1110 01101 1101100100 111110110 11111101 111111011 010 10111100111 111111001 1111111101 11010 11101110100 10011111 100 110111111 11101110 1011011010 110 1111011 1101111111 11111111 11111011111 111011111 1011110101 11110110 111110111 1011110 010 11 1001 1 111111 111111111 11111101 010101 111101100 1110111100 1 1100111010 1111011110 111001111 1101 100 111101 111110110 11011111 010 100111111 110101110 01111101 111011010 01 1 1011010101100 0111101110 1111111111 111001101 1111111 1101010111 11111111 11111111 110111011 1101101111 101011000 1101101100 111110111 1011110101 11111011 11111011 11111111 111111111 111011110 11110101110 111101110 110001101 1101110111 1111111 100111110 110011100 1111011110 10 111111101 10011110111 11111011 111101111 110111110 111111100 111100011 11111100110 110111101 1000010101 1000 1100111 11111001 011111111 10 11111111 1000 110011111 11111011 1101011111 11111110 1001111 10 1 10111101 110111110 1101 1000 101100 10 1101111111 111111101 111010110 1000 011101100 1111100110 1101011101 100111100 1010 110111111 110011111 1000 111101110 10 11111110 111101111 110011111 1111 1000 01010 11010110 111110 10 111 110110110 1011111111 111111111 1 100010 1101111111 1101011111 11010101 1011001100 100111111 11101101010 110111111 1011011001 111110111 101101111 11011111111 1111111110 111111100 1111011010 110011101 11101110 11111111010 11011110 111111010 11101011100 111101011 1110111111 100 11111101110 1101010101 1100110111 110011111 10100111 1110111110 1101111101110 110110110 0111000111 1000 111111001 0111101010 100 110 1000 110111 111100110 10110101000 100 11000 1000 1011 111101101 1111011111 1101110110 110100110 11111111 1101110001 11111111 11111111 111111111 101101111 111101111111 11101111 1011111111 1111110111 1101011001111 1110110110 111001111 1111111111111 1100111110 111111110 1001 11011110 1111011 111011110 11010110 11111111 1111011100 11111101 11011110 11111111 1111010110 11111101010 1000100 1101011001 101111111 11110111 1111111110 111111111 1111110111 100 11101111 111110011 11100 1000 1110 11111110 11111101 1111000110 111011111 101011101 1111111011 111110111 110111111 10010001000 10010001000 1100001100 11111101110 11110111000 111111101 01111110 11110111 11110101100 100 1111111010 1000 1111111 111110100 11010101100 111111111100 1111011101 1101100110 101110111 1111101 100 11111 1000 111 111110111 11110111 0111011101 1101010111 10 1111 010 111011 0111101 10 111111111 1111110110 010 0111 10 110110 010 11111111010 1111111 10 101111111 111101110 010 011011110 10 111110011 11111 010 1011 10 1100011100 010 11110110101 1111111100 10 110 010 1110100 1111111101 1111 10 11111 1011011101 111001101 1111111011 11101101 1101010011 11101111 010 11 10 10111111 111110111 11001 010 0110 010110110 101110110 1001111110 10 111011110 111111111 111000111 010 11 1111011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 130
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 614
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, den, jeg, er, du, han, saa, var, for, det, saae, og, at, aldrig, iblandt, man, b, kk'net, om, de, i, gl, naboe, hm, en, h, ha, til, ey are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, og, aladdin, nu, jeg, hvad, du are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines aladdin, noget, man, lys, naboe, kobbersmeden are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words gaae, kobbersmeden at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases aladdin, kobbersmeden, det connect the lines.

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  • summary of Gade;
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