This is an analysis of the poem Den Rige Frøken that begins with:

Det var just en St. Hansdag
I Skiemminge By;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXb cXXXdbeb XfXXXXXe XXXdXXXX XXXXXgXg XXXXXXXh XXXcXgfg dfXfXXXX XXXXXfXf XXXXXXdX fXXXiiXX XXdXXXXX XXXXXcXX XXXXXcXX XXXXdXXX XXjXXcXX jXXfdXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXfXX klglXXkX hXXXXkXX mfXfXXiX XaXXXXXX dXklXXiX XXXXXXXX XXXgXniX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 1101 010010 110101 11111 1111 110111 1101 110101 11001 111101 11111 1101110 11101 10111 101101 11111000 11111 111100 11011 111101 111 111100 111 1111110 111011 1111010 1111 1111110 111011 110000 110111 111110 101110 11011 11111 11110 11101 111010 11101 11111 11111 110111 100111 111111 11011 1100110 11111 1111110 1110 1100010 1111 11111 110011 10111 110001 1101010 110111 11100 111110 111110 0111 1110100 111110 111100 11011 110110 1111 110111 1101 110110 110001 110111 110111 110110 11010 11001 11111 1101010 1111 111011 11011 110110 010111 1101010 110100 111111 111001 111110 111111 1101110 110001 111111 111101 110110 111111 11010 111111 11111 111111 10111 11111 101111 110111 11111 111101 111101 11110 111111 001101 101111 11101010 111101 111111 010111 10110 110111 111110 11111 110111 1101110 10101 110111 110111 110111 1101 110110 11011 100111 110111 111100 11111 111111 110111 110011 110111 1111101 110101 11111 11111 110111 111101 1111 101100 111111 111011 11111 11011 11011 1101 101100 111011 1101111 111101 111110 11001 1111 110011 11111 11110 111110 111111 11111 11100 11111 11111 111110 111110 110111 111111 110011 111111 110100 111100 0101110 1100100 111110 11101 111111 11111 111010 111110 111101 1111 1100011 100111 110011 10111 111000 11100 111110 11100 11100 01011 111110 1101 111111 110101 110101 1101000 10111 110011 110011 1111 1101000 11101 1111010 0111 1101110 111110 111101 1111 111010 1111 11101 11011 11011 111110 11111 011100 111110 1111 11001 1110110 11001 01111 111110 11100 11110100 11111 110011 101011 11111 10011 111110 11011 1111111 11111 110010 111011 11111 101111 1111100 1101 111110 11111 01010 1001 111111 100111 111111 111111 111101 11011 11011 1111110 1111110 11011 111011 11111 111100 110101 11111 11101 111110 110110 1101110 11111 1101 11101 1110 1111 1111 11111 11011100 110111 111111 11101 111110 111011 111100 110111 1101110 111101 101110 11101 111101 111001 110111 11111 110011 11101 111111 11110 1111110 1111101 110100 1111 11011 10101 1101110 110011 111000 110110 11010 1101 11010 11011 11111 110100 11110 111110 110011 110001 010010 1110 1101010 1101 1101100 1101010 11101 11001 110001 111111 1111110 101011 1101110 10011 111111 111011 110010 110111 1101010 111111 101101 110001 1101110 100101 11101 110111 110100 110101 1101 1101 111101 11001 111100 11100 110111 1110 1111 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 352
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; i, hun, og, som, d, var are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, der, i, og, som are repeated.

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