This is an analysis of the poem Til Læseren that begins with:
Medens Christian Winthers milde Haand
Lyren slaaer om Lammet og om Oxen, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXX XcXXaXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXada efefXXXX XXXXbXXX gXgXXXaa aXXaXXXX aXXXXcXX hbXXdXdh XXcXiXiX
- 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: 10101011 1011101110 101111101 1001100110 101110011 111010110 1111111 1111110 111100111 1011101010 101011110 1010101110 11111101 11111101 111110001 11011101 10101111 1011010 1111111 10111110 10011101 101111000 11110001 110111110 11100111101 101110111 111110110 111110111 110110010 1111101110 111010111 1110101110 11111110 1111111 101111101 10001111 111011101 111011110 110110100 10111110 11101110 0111101 10101111 101111101 10011111 11011111 1001110 11001111 1101111 111110010 111000111 01001000 1011110 11011100 101100101 1010001110 111001101 1110101010 10110101 1011101010 1011001 101010001 101110101 11111101 10111111 111011101 10110110 01101011 101111111 101111110 101011101 111011 11101111 111111001 111111101 11100111 10111111 110111 111011101 1010001110 10111111 101010111 111000110 101111101 1100111 1110100 10101111 101011110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, hvor, d are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words inden, veiet, hvor, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same word kj at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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