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

Paa Danmarks Strand en Hytte
Saa nær ved Skoven laa,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXX XXbXcXXX XXXXXXXX dXXeXaXX XfXfXXXX dcXXXcXX XdXdXXXX aXagXhXX XXXXXXXX aXXXXgXX XbXXfXXX XXXiXXXX XXeXXXXX ihXhXXXd XXXXXjXj XXkXaXXX XXXXXbXb XXaXXXXd XhXXXXdX XXXXXXXX XeXXXeXX XkXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 111101 11110 110111 1111010 110101 1101110 110101 11111 1101 111101 10101 11011 11110 11111 111101 110110 01101 110111 111101 111010 111111 110110 11111 110111 11011 1101010 11100 110110 110000 11111 01110 111100 111111 1111110 11111 1111110 110111 111000 110111 111101 110101 011010 11101 1111110 11001 1111110 1111 111101010 11111 110110 01111 1111 1111 01110 111001 111110 11101 1111110 110111 1110110 11011 1011010 111100 11101 11111 101110 11011 110111 11001 1101 11111 1101010 110111 11011 110101 110001 110111 11011 111100 1101110 11111 0101100 111111 010111 110101 110111 111100 110111 1110 11111 11101 111110 101111 110111 11111 110110 110111 1111010 11111 111010 11111 101110 101101 111111 001111 11111 11011111 1101100 011100 1111100 11011 1011010 101111 1101110 111001 1111010 111001 1101110 11011 111100 110001 110001 11101 1100110 11011 110100 101101 11111 110101 111101 11111 110010 100111 1101110 111011 11111 11100 011110 10010 1111110 11111 1111010 01011111 1101000 11011 11111 101101 110110 1011 11111 110111 1110110 110111 1101010 11111 1111010 110011 100110 11111 111111 11111 11001 1011 11011 11111 1110 1011 1111010 110111 1111000 111100 1101000 11001 1101010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 176
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sit, i, d, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, med, hun, han are repeated.

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  • summary of Storken;
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