This is an analysis of the poem Sultanens Pallads that begins with:

Det er en deilig Morgenstund. Aladdin!
Du havde Ret, hvi troede jeg dig ey?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXXaXXXXXXXXcXde X aXc XXc aX Xa aX Xa aX XX aX XXa afXXXX Xba aX XdX aXX XXg aXh XXa X aX XXXX aiX XXa aX Xf aiXXX XXXXXbX aXaXXXX Xd aX XXfj aX XgXXbXXbXXXaX ak Xe ae Xa akXX XaXXaXaa aXiX XiXXla XaXXXXXXXaemXXX XaXb aX XXXXX aaXXXfX XXXXXXXX XkX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,6,3,2,3,3,3,3,3,1,2,4,3,3,2,2,5,7,7,2,2,4,2,13,2,2,2,2,4,8,4,6,15,4,2,5,7,8,3,3,2,30,2,3,6,5,15,3,3,2,5,6,5,3,5,16,2,45,2,2,5,2,2,5,2,19,5,3,13,3,4,5,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110100010 01111111 0110111111 11110110 111101011 011111110 1011110111 11111101 1101111110 1101111010 111110111 1011010110 1111111010 1101011100 1101001111 10010100110 010110101 1001101110 110110010011 100 110101111 1111 10 1010 11 100 111110111 10 111 100 111111111 10 11100 100 11000 10 11000 100 111000 10100 1101011100 1110 100 11101 111101011 1111110101 1111001011 1110010 10 10111010111 1110 100 1111111101 10 111 10 100 1010010 10001 10 1011 110111 100 11100 11001111 10 1111111110 1011001101 10011101 100 10 100 1110011 10111110 11010111 100 1111011101 1110010110 100 111011101 1101011101 100 111101 100 11010 100 1101010111 111100111 111111110 1101001100 100 1001111010 11110011110 11111111 11011101110 11011101 10011111111 100 111011111 1011010111 1110101111 111011110 1111001111110 1111111000 10011 11 100 11011111 100 10111100 111111110 1111111011 100 1011 100 1111111 111101000110 1101010111 11111011 111110111 0100110101 110111101 11101111 1011110100 100101110 111111111 0111101100 100 1101011101 100 100010 100 1110 100 0101 100 111101 110110111 11 100 1101101 1110110 10011111 11110111 110111111 11110111010 0101 100 110100 1111111 1111110100 100 11111111 11101111 1101110010 110101111 1101 100100 1111 101101111 1111011101 111010110 111111100 110001111 111101011 111011101 100 111011100 1011011101 01100011100 1101100001 1111111111 100 111111110 1111100011 11110101 100 11011111 100 01100011100 111111110 101110011 1100111000 100 1101111010 110111111 111100110 111111010 1100010111 1111010 100 100110011 1110110110 11110101010 11111111 11111110 111011111 11010010 100 110111100 1110 10 11101 11111110 100 1011011010 100 1111111111 110111100 1101010110 110101111 111111110 111110100 11111011110 1111001100 11000111 111101100 1111101110 110111110 1111011110 110101111 11011111000 1001111111 11011111 1011110011 1101010011 11111111 110011110 11111111 111110011 111100111 110111001 1111111 01111111 111111110 110110011 10 10 10010 110101 1 100 11111110 111101111 11000111110 1101111101 01111110 100 11110101111 1111110110 11111111 1011111 100 110 1110011101 1101011111 1111011100 1101111000 1110011000 1110111010 01011110 111111010 111110001 101111110 11111101110 11111111 1011010111 100 010110010 110100101 10 111011101 110010011 100 1100101111 1001010011 1110001010 11001101010 110110111 1111111 100 11100110110010 111110110 1101101111 111111111 11111110 10010 10 111010110 1011111 1111010110 101011 11111010 11111111 100 1101010110 1101110111110 1101101110 010100 1010 1110 10110101110 0110000111 11011111 110101111 110001110 10111111 1101110010 010111111 101111111 11101101111 10100111 01111110 1101011101 11001001 100 110111001 1010 110111110 1101111111 1111111000 111111111101 1111010010 111011101 110111111 101110111 1111011110 1111110100 1011011101 1100011111 11111101 1111011110 110100101 111111111 111101011 1100010011 111101111 1111011101 11111101100 11111111 110110100 111100110 111101101 11100111 100111010 110111101 11101111 111111000 110110011 1101001110 111111111 11111101 1101110110 1110010111 1100111011 111110101 11101101010 11111001 1111111011 111011110 111010010 11011111 10 111010010 100 011011010 100 10010100 11100110 1111001101 101 10 111110 100 1110 100100 1111 0111111 1111011110 11110111110 100 1000111111101 100 1101011001 11011110 11000001010 1101010111 1101010101 11100100110 10011001010 11111101 1111101010 1111110111 11111101111 11110111010 11011101000 11111110111 111111111 101111101 111101111 110110110 010 110101101 10111000 110111111 111110111 100 1111100110 1110111 010 111110110 1101010100 1111010100 111110111 110110110 1111111 111101011 11111110 111111110 1111011101 11110111010 11101111 100 11111111 1111001110 010 11111101 11110111 1110001101 100 11110111110 111111011 1101010101 011111110 010 1111111 1111111010 1111101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 84
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 438
  • 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; jeg, at, i, det, o, min, og, en, er, hvad, sin, den, var, m, med, eders, har are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, saa, min, var, og, om 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soliman is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words seng, vindvesposten, sultan at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases soliman, det connect the lines.

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