This is an analysis of the poem Juliane Marie Fiedler that begins with:

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

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXa XbcbXXXX dXddXXXX XXXcXXae XXXXXfgf XXXgXXeX aaaafXXX XXXXXeXX fXfXXXXX XXXXcXXX aXaeXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101111 1111001100 110101011 111101101 11111111110 111011100 1111110010 01110110 10101010 01101111 1111011111 111010111 1101011101 11010111010 1101000110 110111111 110111011 1111011110 1001111101 1111110011 1111001110 111001111 11111110 1101011111 1111111 1101001100 110111101 11001111 1001010111 1111001101 11111111 110101101 111101111 11111101110 11001001 1111101010 110101010 1111111010 1101011110 110111110 110110111 110101111 110111101 110101110 1101111101 11010101000 1101110111 11010011100 0111111 10111111111 01101011 011111011 0111101110 1101111111 011110110 111111 0111101 11110001 01111101 111111101 01110111 111111111 011111111 01111010 11111110 11110111 110111110 11011111 1111100100 11111111 1011010110 11111111 11101101 111100011 11011011 1111111 110111001 10001101101 1101111101 1111111001 11111011 111000100 1101001111 1111110101 1011110111 10110011 1010101110 01111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; nu, hun, s, lg, med, og, kj, b, de, ei, ikke, du, ber, vi are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words s, kj, du, vi are repeated.

    The author used the same words du, vi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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