This is an analysis of the poem Nattebesøget Paa Kongsgaarden that begins with:
Jeg stod paa Lejreborgen,
Jeg saa paa Fjord og Skov....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbcbX XXXXXXbb bXXXXXXX dXXXXXXX XXdXbXXX eXeXXXXX bXXXXaXX XXaXXXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1111000 111111 111000 11011 11111 11001 111111 111100 1111010 111111 1111110 110111 1100010 110100 11111111 110111 11111 11111111 111101 110111 1111000 11101 11110110 11111 111111 11111 11101 110001 111110 11111 110101 11001 110111 11111 11111111 110100 11101 111101 110110 011010 11101 110001 11001 110111 110110 11110 1011010 0101101 11101 1111111 111101 110111 111110 111101 011000 1101000 11111 110101 101111 111011 11110 11011 111110 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; jeg, d, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, kun are repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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