This is an analysis of the poem Simon Peder that begins with:

Milde Morgenvinde, linde,
Kiøle heden Sommerluft,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXbX XXXX XcXX XXbX XXXX XdXX XXXX aXccXXddeeXXXdbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001 110100 11011 1110101 10111010 1010001 1111010 11010 10000010 1011111 10101010 1111100 1011010 101111 11101010 1010100 111101 1011111 101111 1110001 10100010 110111 11111010 1110111 11111010 111001 111101 110011 11101010 101111 110111 1110100 111111 101111 1110010 11111 111011 101111 1110010 111101 11100010 1110111 10101010 1010100 111011 1011101 11101010 1110100 10110010 11110 101001 1111101 10110010 111101 100011 1011110 101101 1110111 11111010 111111 1110111011101 111001111111 10111000111011 1011101001101 101011111001 101110101011101 1111110111111 111011101100101 1111110101111 11101010111011 10110101110101 1111101101111 10111111111 111010101110101 1111111110110 1011011011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; som, i, du are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Simon Peder;
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