This is an analysis of the poem Det Første Møde that begins with:

See, Sneen lægger sin Pude
Om Hytte og om Slot....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbXb XXXc XXXb dedX XXfX XXXX XXXg XaXX XXXg XXhe XXXX XXXb XXXX hehX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXi XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX dXXX XfXX hXhX XfXX fdfX XXXX XXXX XaXa bXba XXXX XXXX iXiX XXXg XXXX XXXa XcXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 11111 101110 100111 1111 010111 110110 10111 1101010 011110 100110 11111 1100000 110111 111100 1111 1111 101001 110101 11111 11110 111101 11111 10111 11111 110111 11111 111001 101110 11001 111010 11111 1001110 111111 1111110 111011 11111 11100000 100111 111101 111100 110110 101110 110010 111011 110111 10111 11111 11111 100111 11001 11100 111101 11011 10111 11111 111110 11110 1111110 11010 111101 110100 11111 1111110 0110 110001 01111 101011 1001110 1100011 01100 1101111 1101110 1101101 1101110 111100 11011 110110 1011 100111 1111111 1111100 010110 11110 11011000 100101 1111110 1111 11011110 11100 110110 101100 111101 01101 111101 11101 1111 111100 111101 1110110 1111100 111110 1111110 10111 11111 110101 10110 1111 11111 11101 111101 10011 1101110 110101 111110 11111 111101 11101 10011 1011111 110111 11011 10111 101101 0111100 11011 11001110 11010 011110 100111 101010 11101 111101 111001 100111 111111 11011110 110111 10101110 101001 100111 110111 11101 101011 11110 11110 1111100 1101111 111101 111110 1101111 110011 01111 11101 1110010 100101 111110 110101 11001 01111 0111100 11111 110010 101111 101111 11111 11011 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 42
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 97
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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 are repeated.

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

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

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