This is an analysis of the poem Reisen Over Beltet that begins with:

Med smukke, lange Vers jeg agter at afmale
Hvad meer mig hændet er; men først en lille Tale....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXbXXXXXXXaXXXXXXcXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXabbXXXXeeffXXXXXXgXXXXXcX XXXcXXXXXXXXfXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXbfXXXXXXXcXXXXffXXXXXXXXaaXXXhXXgXXXiXXXXXfXbXXXXXbXXXXXcXXXXXXfXaXXXXXXeeXXXXXXeXXXiXXfdXfXhXXhXcXXXXXbXXXXbXXXXXXXjjXXeeXXXcXXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,168,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110110 11011011111 10110110100 110001101101 11011111010 110111110011 111011111 11011111111 11110111011 11110111011 11101110011 1111111101 100100110111 10010111111 111101110110 1111111010 1001011101110 1111011011010 1010011111 11101110101 1111111111 110011111010 11001111110 11010111111 110110110001 110111111 11100110101 11100111100 110101111111 11001111101 11011011011 11100110101 1101010010010 1100111010000 110100111111 110101110110 101101111111 011001111111 11000011111 110110101111 1011001011100 111011001110 110101110111 111111011 1001111011 1010111111 11011111111 1111111011 11010111111 1111110111 11011101111 11011111011 110101111110 111110111010 1111111001 11110110110 1111001111100 1011111000 110100111001 1110011110 11000110111 111101111 111001100111 110011110001 111101110010 1101111111110 1111110111 11111111110 11101110001 11010111011 11111110111 11110111111 1111001011100 1101111101000 111101111001 11101111110 10010110111 11100011100 110101111101 11101111011 1111101100010 1101001101100 1111011110 1101111111 110111110111 110111110111 110101110101 11110111011 111111111111 11110011111 11111101101 110101110101 110111111101 110101110100 11100111110 11101110100 1111111011 11010111111 1111111101 11111110111 100111111110 1011111101100 110111111011 100000111101 111110111101 10001111001 100000110111 1111011011010 1111111111 11101111100 111000111001 11101101111 1101011111100 110001111110 11100111101 11101111 111110111010 101111101000 11111111101 11111111111 100111001010 1011001101110 111001110111 110111100111 11110111011 1111111101 1101001111111 1111011111 11101110101 100111101010 1111111111 100111101110 11111010110 11110011111 111001011101 110111110011 1110111100100 111111001110 11111111111 1011111100 1111111111 111101111110 111101110110 111111111 11011111111 101101111111 1111011111 11011110010 110111101110 100011111100 111111111 111101111101 0111001111110 011111011110 111101111 110100110111 10110111101 11011110111 11111101111 1111110101 101111111 11011110101 111101111101 1111111110 111001101110 11110110010 11110111110 11000111110 11111101100 110010111110 11110111001 1111111101 11110111011 1110111111 111101111 11011111111111 1111111111 111101111001 1111111111111 110011111 11110111110 111111001 1111111110 111110110110 1110010110 111001110100 1111101001 11011111011 10100110010 111011101110 11101110111 1110011010 1010011001110 10100111110 10110101111 10111111110 110101111101100 110101111010 11010111101 11011111100 110011111111 111111111111 11110111110 10001111001 1011111011010 1000111100100 111101101110 101100111101 11010010110 111101111111 1101111110 11001111101 1011001101100 10011100111 101100111001 111111111 10110111110 101101111110 110101100 1111011110 11110111111 1111111101 111001110111 111101100111 101011111 111011111 101101010111 111101110111 110111111 111111101110 11100110001 1110010110 111100100111 11100100110 1111111101 111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5458
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1101
  • Amount of lines: 236
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, til, er, det, saa, jeg, den, du, man, for, var, dagen, som, os, d, vi, h, at, mig, hvad, re, v are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, ved, det, jeg, hvor, vi, du, hvad, at are repeated.

    The author used the same word med 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 mme, m, se, d, de, kker, iet, rste, lge, nke, re, ye are repeated).

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  • summary of Reisen Over Beltet;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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