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

Herr Greven stod ved Vinduespost
Og stirred ud imod Veien:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XaXaXXXX XXbXcXcX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXdXde efXfgbgX XXXXXXXX XXXXbXbX heXXXXXX XigXXXbX XXXXcXcX XXXXgXgX XXXXbXXX XXXXXXXa XXbXaXha XaXXXXXX XXbXXXhi XXXaXXXX bXXXXXXX XiXiXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 111101 10111111 1001011 101101100 111001 11001101 10111 11011111 111110 1111101 111110 1111001 11111110 11011101 1001100 1111100 010110 11011011 11110 11111101 1111101 101111101 11101 110110110 1101101 101110110 1100111 10110111 11111010 111011011 11110010 110111111 1101111 1111111 10111 101111 1101110 1101100011 1110111 11100011 101101 11101111 111111 11111000 100111 1101101101 111011 1011101001 111101 010011111 101001 111001101 1010101 1111111 11111 1001101001 11111001 101111110 1010010 11111100 1111011 111111101 110101 110110011 10111000 11011111 100110110 100110111 1111011 10110111 0110110 1111101 1010101 1100011 11001100 11110111 110111 11111010 110110000 1110111010 111111 0111111 11111 1100101101 111101 11111011 1110010 1011111 11110010 11111111001 1111 10100001011 1101100 11011101 11110010 111110010 101000 1100110100 1010010 111101111 1100100 11110011001 11111000 11010111 1111111110 11100111 11011000 111100111 111101 110110101 111100 11101101 01010110 11101001 11011111 1111111010 11101100 11011011 1111010 11001100 11010110 11011101 1111110 1100101010 11001110 1111111011 11010010 1101101 11011110 11100111 11111100 1010110 10011000 110101100 11000110 11001100 11010110 11011101 1111110 110111111 1101010 110010011 11011010 110101101 11010110 11111011 11001110 11011110 1111010 1111101 1110010 11011001 1111011 111110100 110111 11011010010 11110 1101011111 110111 1101111 1101011 110111101 1001101 11110111 101111111 110111101 1011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • 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; en, jeg, man, den, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, jeg, vi, den, hvor, saa are repeated.

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  • summary of Zigeunersken;
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  • history of its creation;
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