This is an analysis of the poem Johan Ludvig Heiberg 1860 that begins with:

To the grave they bore him sleeping,
Him the aged, genial gardener;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abac bDBE fgfX aaad ahaX ibii bbXc CFCC bcbh aaaX bibX aXab CFCC bbbX fafgXbDBE
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00111110 10110100 10101110 0010111 10111110 10101010 11101110 1011111 10101010 10101011 10111110 1010111 10111010 10111010 11111010 1011110 10111110 10011010 111010010 0110101 10100111 1011010 111001011 1110101 11100010 101111010 11101010 1011101 00111010 11101110 10101010 0110101 10101010 10101010011 10101010 1000101 11101010 10111010 10111110 0011001 10111110 11100011 10101010 1010001 10111010 10110010 10110010 00101010 00111010 11101110 10101010 0110101 10100010 11110100 00101110 1011101 10101010 11101010 10101110 1010101 10111110 10101010 11101110 1011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 67
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; he is repeated.

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