This is an analysis of the poem Dandsen I Skoven that begins with:

Nu har jeg feiet og redt Seng,
Og Davren er til Ende;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX aXXX XXXX XXXc XXXX XXXd aeXe fXfX XcXX bcXc XXXX XXXX bcXc XXXX XXdX gfXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXd eded XXXX XbXX XdXX XXXX XXXX XXXf gXXX XXXd XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 110011 1101111 11111 11011111 1001010 11110111 1100110 11001111 111111 11111 110001 11000110 1101110 10011011 1100010 11001101 111011 11011111 110101 1111111 1101110 1100100 1111110 110111 11111 11010110 11011 1111111 110111 11110101 11111 1111111 111110 11010100 11110 1101111 111110 11111100 110110 11011111 110111 1111100 110101 111111 1101110 11011111 111010 11010111 1111110 11111111 1101010 1101111 11111 11011111 11111 11001101 110111 1110101 110111 11010111 110111 1110110 11111 1110101 111111 111111 11111 111110 111100 1101111 1101010 1110111 1111010 1111100 1101110 111111 110111 11011111 11111 010011 01010 110110 11011 01011111 1101 101111 11011 111111 110010 11101101 1111111 101011 1101110 11011101 1101110 11111111 1111110 111111 1011110 11011101 111101 1110111 11111 1111101 111101 1111101 111010 1001111 111110 11111111 1111110 1101011 011111 11110111 011111 110110 11101 11011101 111101 1101110 111111 1101111 110111 1101111 11111 1111010 111101 11111111 1111010 1011111 111110 11011111 1100110 111111 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • 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; og, du, de, han, af are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, og, med, da, de, af, saa are repeated.

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

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