This is an analysis of the poem Eselet that begins with:

Under Bislag, ved Huset
Med Kanderne paa Bord,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabXcX XadaXXXX XXXeXXXa fXaXXXXX XXXXXXXg XXXXbhXX XXXXXaXa XaXXXXXX XeiXXXXX XXeXXXXX eXcXXjXX dXXkXXXX XXXXXXXl daXXXhah bcXXdXgX XXXXXXda XaXXXaXX XXXXXXXm XXXgXXmX XXXXnXXX XXXXhXaX XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXm dXXXXXXX XXXeXXXk XXdnnkXk hXXXXXXX XXXXXhXh XcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010110 11011 0101100 111101 11101 11111 11011 1111110 111010 111111 111100 110111 111111 111101 11111 111101 11011 110011 111111 111111 100101 111101 110111 110111 11111 110111 110111 11111 111100 111101 110111 11101 111101 11111 110011 111111 11111 11001 1110011 11101 1100110 11111 1101110 110011 111101 11011 11011 11001 110110 11011 11011 1101100 101110 111111 111111 11111 11111 11111 110110 11110 111110 11111 1101100 110111 110110 11111 111111 11110 1111110 111001 111111 11111 111110 111110 11110 111101 11110 110111 111111 10011 11111 11011 11111 11011 101110 111111 1111100 11111 111110 101011 1110110 11101 101101 11100 110111 110100 1101111 11011 110111 101011 110010 111111 1101110 1111111 1101110 111111 11011 111100 110111 111111 11101 1101 111111 110001 1101100 11111 1111110 11011 110111 101001 111111 1110 10111 100111 110110 110101 111110 11001 1010110 0111 10111 110100 01011 110101 1101110 110111 11111 111011 1100110 111001 01110100 110111 111000 11111 1111111 111110 11111 11011 11111 110111 110111 1101 111110 11011 1101110 11111 11111 111111 110110 110100 110111 111101 111110 110101 110111 11111 110111 111111 11111 11111 011110 110111 1100110 11011 111111 101101 1111010 11110 1111 11111 1111 10101 11111000 11111 110010 11111 11111 110100 11010 110111 110100 11111 11111 111101 1101 110001 110110 111101 111111 100101 110111 110111 1111010 111011 111011 110111 1111110 101111 1111 11011 1001100 1111 11111 110011 11111 11101 11001 11101 110110 1111 010111 010111 010111 11111 1111110 111001 11111 11110 11110 1101 100110 1111 111110 111101 1111110 11100 10111 110100 111011 11111 110101 110001 110111 101101 111110 11111 11110 1101011 1101110 110111 111110 11011 111111 1101 11011 111110 111111 110111 1111 1111 1111 11111 1110010 110111 10110 110101 111010 11011 1101 1010110 110101 111001 110100 01001 1011100 110101 11011 111010 011010 110111 1101011 110101 1001110 11100 0111011 11011 11011 11011 111110 11101 111111 11101 111111 100111 11111 1111 110010 1111 1111110 1111 111101 110110 1111101 11111 1111110 11100 11111110 1111 1101110 111111 11111 11111 1101110 01101 1101110 11101 1111110 11111 11110 111010 1111001010 111111 10111 11110 1010110 111110 111110 1101010 110110 11111 111111 11101 111110 1110001 110110 11101 1101110 101010 1111 110001 111111 11111 110110 11111 1111000 100111 111101 11111 111111 11001 111110 1101 11111 01111 0101100 110111 111111 100111 1100110 11101 11101 11100 1111111 1101 1100110 110111 111110 110111 1111010 10111 111111 11010 1101110 110111 111111 11111 110111 1110101 111111 11101 111101 110001 1111 11100010 111110 11101 11111 1011 110111 111001 110110 110101 10101100 11111 110111 11101 111111 11101 1101110 1011110 1111 1110111 111111 11001 1101100 10111 110110 11111 11111 11011 1101 11111 111100 111111 1100101 11111 110110 11010 1110111 101010 1111011 110111 110101 11111 1111110 1011110 1101011 11111 0101 10011 111101 1101 11111 111101 1101110 11111 1111 110111 111101 11101 1100010 11111111 111101 1111 1100110 11111 1101111 11111 11111 101101 111111 11111 111101 11111 1001110 110111 11111100 0111 1110110 11011 11111 111111 11101 11111 11111 1111 110101100 110101 110111 1111010 110110 111110 111100 11011 111110 111 111110 111011110 110111 10101 110111 1101101 010010 100011 11010 111001 110101 110111 111101 111101 111110 111001 111111 111111 11100 111101 111000 110101 1100110 1111 11101 1110101 111110 10011 1111010 11111 1101000 100111 10111 101101 111101 110101 1101010 11101 111010 11111 111101 111101 11111 101110 1100110 111101 1101110 110111 101101 110111 110010 110101 111010 110101 0101 11101 010110 01110 110110 10101 110110 1111 11111 110111 11111 10111 11010 100111 1110100 11111 1111110 11101 10011 111001 1001010 11111 11110 11111 111100 1101 1110110 101011 11100 11011 11001100 11011 111111 11101 11110 111111 11011 1110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 71
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 568
  • 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; og, jeg, rt, ham, om, var, de, sammen, gik, til, er, den, han, lidt, d, efter, da, skal, hans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, om, i, min, hans, da, med, de, saa, den, een, han, hvor, som are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rt is repeated).

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

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  • summary of Eselet;
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