This is an analysis of the poem Pladsen Uden For Aladdins Pallads that begins with:

Selim.
Ih see, god Dag! thi, taer jeg ikke feil,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaX XX XX XXXbX XcXXX XdXXcXb XX XXXX XaX XXXXXdX XXX XXXXXcXXXXXX XX XXXXXXeX XXXXbXX XXXd XXXfXXX XXg XXXXXX Xd XX XfdXdX Xe XdX XXa XhXXXX Xh XXXXXX XXX XXgX XXX XXeXX dX XXX XggX XbXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,5,5,7,2,4,3,7,3,12,2,8,7,4,7,3,6,2,2,6,2,3,3,6,2,6,3,4,3,5,2,3,4,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 111111111 1101110101 10 111 10 10011 10 1011111101 1011010101 11101111 111010111 10 011111110 10111011 1011111011 110100 10 1101 1101111 101111110 111001110 1111110110 01111111 10 1111111011 10 1011111110 11110111 111111110 10 1101100111 1110011 10 10 111011110 101101111 1111110110 11011011 111001111 10 1110100101 111001100 10 100111101 11111111 110110010 1101011100 1111111110 11110110 111111111 111111011 1101111110 10111111 111011101 10 0111 10 11101 11100111 11101000 1101011110 11011111 101010101 11010 10 11011 1011001111 111111111 110111111 1111011100 1101001100 10 1101101101 1111111011 010100110 10 1100101101 111111 1101011101 1101110000 111001110 110 10 1110011 11110011 10 1011111110 11111110011 1111001111 0100011101 11000 10 100010 10 110 10 1110111 11101111 0101111110 11110111110 1011101000 10 1100 10 10111 11011110 10 1111011001 111 10 111111 1111011011 10111100110 11101111111 111101101 10 11111 10 1101 1101110111 111111101 11011111 1110011010 101011 11011101100 111110 10101000 1 110111111 11110 10 1101 111 10 1101 1011101110 110110111 01 010 110111 10 10111 10101111 10 1111111101 1110101 110 10 1111011 1111000110 1111111110 10111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; den, f, det, vi are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word saa is repeated.

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