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

Soliman.
Ved Gud! det er mit Raad, mit Folk bekiendt,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXbcdXbX Xe XXXX X XXX Xf aX XgXfXXXb XXX XXXXXaX XX XXe aX XaXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXaXXXXXX aX XXXXXXaXXXXXa ah XXXeXX aX XXXXXXXXX aX XXXXXXXaXXhXX aX XXXg aaXXXXX XI aX XX XX XIXXXXXX aXX XgXXXX XdX aXXaXX XXXa XaaaXb XaX aXfXXXXXXXbXXX abX afX aXbXXX acbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,2,4,1,3,2,2,8,3,7,2,3,2,24,2,13,2,6,2,9,2,13,2,4,7,2,2,2,2,8,3,6,3,6,4,6,3,14,3,3,6,4,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 11101111111110 11010100010 111011111 110110111110 11110111110 111101010 0101110110 111111001 111001110 111000 100 1101 10 111 110111001 111110101 0101010011111101110 10 110 111111110 10 1111111101 010 1101 10 101111001 11101 111110101 11001111 10111011 10111111 101111110 10 11111111000 1101001101 10 11011011 101101101 100110001 100101101 10011100110 011110000 10 11 10 111 110110111 010 1111 10 111010 101011110 11010101100 1101110101 111011111 1111100011 11010100110 111111110 1101110100 11001111 1101110100 11110111111 11111101 1111111010 1010011010 11111111 100101111 1101111100 1110011010 1110010110 1100111100 110111010 1011001111 010 11 10 10110110 1101110101 110111101 11100110 11110101 101010101 1101001110 101101101 1101011010 1011000111 11011111 110011111 010 11111 10 1101010100 1101101011 11011101 1111111 1111100 010 11 10 1011000101 11010101100 111011100 11011101 110101011 1101110111 1011111110 11101 010 111 10 110111100 1101011101 1101010101 11010111010 111010110 100110100 01011011 011001101 1100010111 1101011101 110111111 111110101 010 111 10 111111 10011111 11001 010 11111011110101 11111111111 110101111 1110101110 1111111111 1111101111 101 01001001111 100 11101 1 0100100 10 10111001101001101100001110011111 1 01001001111 111111011 110110111 11110001110 110110010 11111111110 1111 100 01101 100011011 100 011111101 1101110101 1111100 10111110 1100010111 1111 01011010110 11 100 101110 1110111110 111111010100 01011110 0101 1 101001110110 01010 1110111010 100 1001100 1101010110 11111111 11111110 110101000 10010 111010111 010111001 100 1101101110 11111101111 111101100 111100111 01011111 111111000 111101110 101111011 111011011 101111110 1011110 1111111 11001 010 110 110111 100 101 110011001 010 11111101 1111110110 101110010 11111011 11001 100 1110 111110010 100111111110101111001 10 111 111100010 1111011101 11111111101 1011101100 1111010111 111111101 1111010111 0111100100 1111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 43
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; blod, du, og, en, som, sorte, den, at, hvor, er, der, aladdin, jeg are repeated.

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

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

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