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

Imod Sydvest paa Sjællands friske Strande
Der staaer fra Riddertid en Herregaard...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXbb XXXXXXXcdX XXXXXXXXXX efXfbXXXXX eXXedXXXXX XcXcXaXXXX XbXbXXXXXX eXeXXXXXgX XXeXXXXXXX XXXXbXbXXX XXXXXXXXXX bXbXXeXgXX XXXXegeaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101111 1111001100 110101011 111101101 1101110101 111111100 1011110101 10101110 11010011110 111111110 11110111110 110101111 11010111111 111101011 1011010111 1100011111 1011110 111011101 1110010101 11111110 0110111100 010111101 1111110110 11101011 110111000 11011111 110111001 1101011101 1110110011 11100111 11011101010 1101001101 11110101100 110110101 1111010110 1110111 1100100110 100110001 1111110011 110111101 1101111010 1101011101 1110101010 11101000 1111110111 1101110101 11011111 101011101 11011101100 10110101010 11111111100 1011011101 10010111100 111101101 1101101000 10111111 111111000 110111011 111111110 11110011010 111001110 110101101 10011000110 11110011 1101101110 110111101 111111000 1101110111 1111101010 1111011110 11010101110 111000101 11011110 110101111 1111011110 111111111 11011101110 1111011101 11111111 1111011111 1111101000 111110111 1101011111110 111110001 11110011010 11010111 1111001110 11111111 1111111110 111111110 1111111110 111011100 11010111010 111101101 1111111101 11011010 1101011101 111110010 11011111 111011100 111011100 1111011001 111111111 11111111111111 11011111 111110100 1101111101 01111111 1101011110 1111111010 1101101110 1101110001 10110111110 1001010111 111011000 1110111010 10010111000 1010110101 1110011 10011101 01001100 101011101 111111110 111011011 111100110 111110111 111101010 100110011 11011111100 110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 392
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 130
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, jeg, har, fra, han, den, med, mit, du, mig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, hvor, fra, kun, jeg, og, nu are repeated.

    The author used the same word kom 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 ien, herskerinde are repeated).

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