This is an analysis of the poem De To Cousiner that begins with:

Ei langt fra Hovedstadens Muur
Ved Landeveien, inde...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXX XbcX dXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX eXfX gXXX XXXX XXXX dhdh XXXX XXXX XXXX XXiX XbXb gXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXcbjXXX XXdX XXXX XXXe XXXX bXgX hXXX XbXX cXiX kXgX jgXX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX gXXX XXXh kXhX blXl hlXX XgXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 11001 1101111 11001 111111 11101 111111 1111 1011011 1101010 1001110 111101 0111111 110010 0111111 1111100 01111 1101010 110110 110100 11111 111111 1001111 111101 1101101 1101110 1101111 1000110 111111 111101 110111 11100 1111101 1111110 1101110 1111000 1111101 10111 1101111 110111 111111 1101110 1111101 111110 11011111 1111010 111011 1110010 1100111 111110 111101 1101110 1100011 111110 1101111 11110 1110111 0100000 11111 111000 1100100 100100 1101111 110101 111111 1011100 11100001 1100100 11011100 11011 1101101 1111100 11111 10110 110110 1111010 1101111 1111 1110010 11101 1111111 111111 1111011 110101 111101 101101 10011001 1111 1110011 1001110 1111011 111100 1101001 110111 1101101 110101 11110111 1101 10110 11001 011111 110110 11011100 100110 111101 110000 1111111 11011 1110111 1011111100 11011111 110100 11110111 1111110 1111111 1111110 11011101 1111100 111111 1101010 111011 11111 1001011 11111 1111100 11111 011111111 1111000 11011001 111110 1111011 111110 111111 110110 110111 011010 011011 111110 1111011 111000 1111011 1111010 11011101 1110010 01011111 1111110 11111100 1111110 1101011111 111101 1101111 11011111 111111 111111 111011 11111010 1101110 11111 0111010 1101110 10011111 110111 1111011 10011 1110101 11101 11010111 0111 1101111 111100 1111101 110110 10011110 110111 11010111 11100 1111110 11101 11010110 111111 1101011 110111 11010110 11011100 1110111 11111 1111101 1101000 1111101 111110 11010111 111110 11011101 1001010 11110101 1101010 11111101 111111 1101100 110110 1010111 1101010 1101101 1101100 0101111 1101000 1111100 111100 11000101 1001110 11010001 1100010 10010011 1101010 11011101 100110 110111 1101110 11000111 111110 1110101 111110 111111 1111 11111101 11101 1111111 110110 11010101 1111000 1101101 11110110 1111101 111110 11110111 110110 1100111 110111 1100101 11111 11011101 11111 111100 1111 1111111 111110 1101111 1101010 11011101 111100 11010111 110111 11110110 110111 11111010 11111 11110111 1100011 11111111 10100110 11011111 1101111 1100011 11001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 65
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 267
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, de, den, sin, jeg, hun, han, om, mig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words paa, og, den, da, sin, kom, hun, de, med, jeg, om are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase den connects the lines.

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