This is an analysis of the poem Herlufsholms Skole that begins with:
I Danmarks gamle Rige,
Saa skiønt paa Siællands Ø...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 11110 110001 110111 100101 111101 111110 110011 1001000 11100 111010 11110 1101010 010101 1101010 110011 1101 110111 01111 111100 1101100 110110 1101010 101101 111110 11111 111010 11011 1111010 110001 1101100 110011 1111100 11011 1100110 11110 110011 111101 1111 110111 100011 111100 11111 1101 0110010 111001 110110 11110 111101 110111 111101 11011 111101 11011 0111 11011 11101 101001 100111 110110 011111 110001 110110 11010 10111 11101 110111 111100 01101 110001 11100 1101 11101 110111 110001 110001 110111 11111 01100 11101 11011 111111 110111 110111 110001 101110 11011 11111 111110 110101 111110 111101 11111 110101 111110 11101 111010 11100 1011010 11011 110100 110101 0111010 10101 1101110 110100 110110 1111 111101 111111 11111 111100 111100 1111 1100001 111101 1111 11111 111100 1111 1100100 111111 1111010 111101 110111 111101 110101 110100 111101 111100 11111 110111 111110 11110 1101010 110001 111111 110111 11010 11101 11101 110101 01110 1101 1111100 11011 1100110 11110 100011 111100 11111 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, det, var, ved are repeated.
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