This is an analysis of the poem Alfernes Pleisøn — I that begins with:

Det var engang ved Pindsetid,
Da Skov og Mark var grønne;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXaXXXXX XXXbXXcX aaXXXXaX XXXXXdXX XXXXXXXX XXXbXXXX XXXXXXXb eXXXXXaX XfXfXcXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXg XXXXXXXX XXXXeXXX XXgXXXXX XXXXXbcb XhXXXXXX XXgXXbXb ijijXXXX XXXXXXih XaXXffff cXcXXXXX aXaXXbjX hXhXXXXX XXeXXeXX XXXXcXXX XXXXhXeX aXhXXXXX XdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101100 111111 110101001 110111 11011101 1101110 1111100 1101110 11011110 1100010 11011101 111110 11011101 11011 11111101 11111 1011101 1111110 1110110 1111010 1101111 111111 111101101 101101 11010111 111101 1101111 11011 1101111 1101110 1111011 111110 11011101 11011 1110111 111101 11001111 11111 111111 10111 11011100 110111 111110 110101 110101101 110110 11010111 11011100 11011101 1101110 1111101 111010 1101111 011110 11010111 1011110 10111111 011110 1011100 110110 110111 111010 1011111 1101010 1011011 1111110 1101100 110100 1010011 111101 11001001 11111 1101111 11001 11111 11111 1111110 11011 11001100 1111 1111011 100101 1100111 11011 1111101 101101 11000101 101111 1101101 10110 10111 1011000 1101100 11110 11000100 11011 0100111 11110 1101101 111110 1101111 11011 1111100 0111 11111101 11011 1101110 111101 11011111 110110 11011101 1100100 10111101 110101 1101111 11001 11110101 11110 11111101 110111 1111110 110101 11011110 11011 11111101 010010 11011101 110110 11011110 11111 1101101 110100 11110101 110101 11011101 110111 11111111 110111 1000111 11011 01010010 111010 111111 1111010 1110111 1100111 11011001 11101 1111111 1100110 11011101 110110 011101 111111 1111000 1110 1111010 110100 1101111 10111 110111 011010 11011001 111010 1111111 11011 1111111 110101 1111101 1101000 1101111 1111100 110111 1101110 11100100 110110 11111 11001 1011001 110001 1111111 1101010 11000101 100101 1101111 110110 1100101 110111 111110 1111010 111111 1101110 11111111 1110 10001101 110111 11111111 11111 111100 111111 1110101 111000 1111111 110110 11110011 111000 11010101 1101110 1101001 111110 1101111 111010 11111111 111111 11111 11111 01110101 11111 1111111 11111 0101011 1101110 111111 1101100 1111111 111111 1111111 111111 111110 110110 11011011 110111 111111 111110 1100111 11011 11111111 110110 0101111 101110 11111101 110100 11011111 111111 1111110 1101101 1001111 1111 1101111 111111 1111111 111101 1101001 1111010 11011101 1110110 011101 110101 1011111 111001 1111011 1101110 1111111 1000110 1111110 111101 11111101 1111 1111101 1111010 11011101 11111 11111101 1111110 1111101 111110 10111100 011000 1111100 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 280
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; i, med, og, de, hun, den, skal are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, fra, den are repeated.

    The author used the same word da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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