This is an analysis of the poem Harlekin Og Poppe that begins with:

Mens Pöbelen hisset vildt sig fryder,
over Smudsigheder og Næstens Lyder,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbXXcXXd ad X efXX XX XXaXXXgg hXXXXggXXggXXXXXaXXXXXXgg XXa XaX XXgXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aaXX iXXX XXXj hXXX iXXX XXXX XX XX hXXXX XX XXjbXgXfXX eXXXXXXXXX XXXXaaXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,2,1,4,2,8,25,3,3,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,5,2,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101110 1010001110 10101100 1111001110 01111010 1101110110 110011110 111001101111 1111111 111101110 1111110100 011110000 110110100 1110 111011111 01111000111101011100 10010111 10110111 11111010 101101100 11 10001101100 100 111111110 111000110 1111011 011001101 1 01111111 1110111001 111 101110000 111110100 111010000 1111111 1111011 110111 11101101 11011101 111011 110111111 11110101 1111101 1111111100 011011011 1101011110 1100100111 101111101 11001111 11010001 111111111 111111100 11010010100 1111111 110101101 10111 00111001 11111101 100 1101100001 1101110100 11000 0110000 111111 11110111 11111 1011101 1111001 11111100 111011100 111001 11101 1111110 1100111 1101111 11111111 110111110 1111000 111001 110110 11010100 11110 111111 1111101 11101010 1101110 11011110 11011000 1110110 1101111 11111111 1101111 110101110 110111110 1101111 1111100 11100100 1111100 11111010 1111000 11011110 111101110 0110000 11011110 1100110111 1100111111111 110 11011111 110 1010111111 1100101100101011111111 11011011111 1111111010 111111 10110001011 1100 1111101011 100 111111 11111011110 11101011110 111101101 1101111 101101101 101101110 10011111 110011001100 1 100101110 11111111 110110110 111110 110100101 1110111000 1000111000110 110110110010 01100111 100 101110110 1111110001 010001110 110111011 11110111 101110111 101101011 10111001 110011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 147
  • 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; jeg, r, en, er, ganske, det, saa are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words harlekin, en, det are repeated.

    The author used the same words hvis, i, en 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, ad, be, rkning are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase der connects the lines.

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