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

Gulnare.
O, min Aladdin! hvor mit Hierte nu...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bacXdXXdXXX XeXXXdb bXbXfXXXX XXXX bX XXXXXaXXXXd bX XdX bXXXXebXXbb Xb XeXeXegg XXfbXXXX XcXcXXXX XbXXXbXh XXXcXXXX XiXXXiXg fXXXfXXX XgXXXgXh XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXcXX XXXXXXfX XXiXiXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,7,9,4,2,11,2,3,11,2,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 11010111111 0110101111 11 010 11111 1101111001 101110011 11111111 1111010111 1110011101 1101011 1111111010 11011111110 111011110 10 110111101 1100111110 1111011000 111011111 11111111111 11111111 010 1001110100 111101111 011101011111 11010110110 11010101010 11111100 11100111 111011101 10 110101111 10111100110 11011101100 010 11 10 1010111 111110010 11011111 11010001 1101111001 1110111010 11011110 110110100 11011011010 111 010 1011010 10 111111101 11001101110 010 111111111 110111100 1101011110 11110111000 1110101 10010110010 110111100 111001110 1100011111 1111101 100 101101101001011011111011111110011001 01101100 11100011 1111011100 111101001 11111101 1011011001 1100111110 1101110010 11111101100 1110010111 111011110 1111101 1101111000 110110101 111111110 111001111 1011011101 11111101 111001110 110111001 11111111 11001110 1000111101 111101101 1111011101 110101101 1111111000 110111111 110110110 111110011 111101111 111111110 11001111010 11001111 10111101110 111010111 111111010 1111011101 1101111110 1111101110 110111011 1111011101 1101111111 111110100 1010111 1101011101 1111111 111111110 1000101010 111110111 110101110 01111010 10110111010 1101110001 111101111 111001110 11011110 110111100 110111001 111111101 110111110 111110 1110111 1111011101 110111101 111011101 1101010100 1101110101 111001100 11101101 111111011 1100110111 1111010011 110101100 1111101 110111100 11111111 110111111 1101110110 1101111100 1111001110 111011101 11111111 11111011 110110110 111011101 1111010101 1111100 111100111 1101011100 111101101 11111010 111111101 111111 111110110 1101011110 1101011010 1101011101 1001011111 110011001 100111001 11110101 11000111 1011110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 170
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; som, og, i, det, du, des are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, ger, re, ber are repeated).

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  • summary of Mekka;
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