This is an analysis of the poem Harpespilleren Ved Posthuset that begins with:
Her vil jeg sidde og Harpen slaae,
og synge en underlig Sang....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabbXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXcX XcXXdXbX XXXXXXeX XXXXcXXX cXXXffXX XXXXXgXX XchXXXXX XXcXaaXX ciXiXahX XXcdXXXd egXXXXaX XXXceXXX XXXhaaXX iXXXXXaa XXXXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01111101 1111001 0111111 11111101101 1100100 1001011010 1001001 1101110 11110111 1101111 11111111 101110 1101101 11011011 110111 1101101 110101010 1010111 10111111 101111 1101111 101011101 1111111 1111010 1101111011 11011001 111110111 110111 011111 0111101 110100 1011110 1110101101 100011 1010111001 10110111 1111001 0100111111 110110 111001 111100110 1101111 11011101 1111111 1111111 111111011 111111 1111101 110111101 111001 110101011 10101011 011101 11011101 011110 111110 11111111 1101011 01111101 11111011 1101001 110001111 110110 11111000 110110101 11111101 111101011 1111111 111110 1100101101 1111101 1101101 111111011 1111111 111101101 1101110 1111 110011111 11101101 1101110 111101111 1001101 11111111 111110011 111100 11010111 010111 1111101 11110111 10100110 111111111 11111011 110111 111001111 1110111 1110111 11101000 111111 1110111 1011111 111101 1101101101 111111 111100 010100101111 111111 11110011 11100111 1101110 1101111010 1111001 1111001 11011111 1111010 110110111 1001101 11001011 11111111 1111 1101111 100101001 111101 1100111010 111101 1111001 110111101 1001101 11011 100100111 111111 1101101101 11111011 1100111 11100100 111101 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 136
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, fra, d, med, nge, han, l, jeg, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, fra, de, den, han, til are repeated.
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