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

Novemberstormen havde sig
Til Borgleie lagt;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbcXX dcXXXeXX cfXcXXXX acXXXgXg dhXhXiXi XXXXXXXX XXXXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXcXXXX jaXaXXXf XXgXbgXg XXXgXXXg XXXXXXjk XcXXXiXi XXdjXeXe XcXcXXcX XXjXXXXX XegXXXXX XhXXXXcX cXXecXXX XiXiXXXX ljXXXXXX XjXXXlXX XXgXXXXj ccXcXXXX XXXXXXaX XXXXbXXX XXXXdXXg XXX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000011 111 11111 11011 11111 11001 111111 1111 111110 110101 11111 111101 11111 110111 1111 111101 10011 11111 11111 1101 111111 1101110 110111 11101 1111101 11111 1111 100101 11101 11111 111010 110111 1111010 11111 110110 11001 111111 111101 1101110 1111 1111100 1010 111110 111001 1111110 100011 110010 11001 11110 110011 11001 11011 11111 111111 111111 1101 111110 11011 110110 11111 11011 11101 11111 111001 111010 11111 11110 1111 11111 101110 111111 0111 1101101 11111 1110 111101 111011 11111 1110110 11111 110111 11011 11111 01111110 100011 111101 111111 11110 110111 101110 110101 10011 0101110 110100 110110 11111 1101110 11111 11111 110011 1111110 110101 111111 1101 111110 11011 111111 101101 1100110 1111 1101110 110001 110110 11110 1101110 111011 11111 110101 1101110 11001 0101110 111101 1101110 110011 1100110 01101 1111 1111 11111 11111 11010 101011 11111 110101 110001 110101 1111 110101 110111 111001 1101110 10101 111110 111101 111110 1101 110110 101101 111101 111101 110111 110101 111101 111100 110111 11111 01011 011111 1101110 100111 111110 101011 111010 10111101 0111110 110101 10111 11101 111111 11111 1101100 111001 1100010 11111 11111100 111101 110010 1111 110100 110100 011010 11011 111110 11011 1100010 110011 111101 110111 110101 111100 1111111 11110 1001110 10111 1111110 110111 11101 11011 111101 11101 111110 10111 110100 010011 111110 111111 0110101 0111 11110 111001 111 11101 11011 10001 0101110 11110 111101 1111111 111110 110101 110110 101100 11111 1111 111 110111 11010 1111111 110101 1101011 11011111 110110 110110 11011 111110 11011 01010 1011 111101 11101 111 100111 1101110 111101 110111 111001 111110 11111 1100110 11110 1101010 1111 110001 110111 1101110 111 1011110 1111 110111 110111 11111 11111 111110 110011 11001 11001 1001100 111 11010 11011 01010 11111 11111 110101 111111 100111 111000 1110 111111 11011 1111010 110111 111111 1011 11011 1111 11111 0111 1111110 11101 1101010 1111101 11011 101011 11110 11111 111010 11101 111110 11111 110110 11111 110101 11111 1111110 1111 11001 11111 1101110 110111 1111111 111101 110101 110111 1101110 1110101 1101110 111110 110111 111101 11111 11111 11110101 1111111 1110110 11001 1011011 11011 01011 11110111 01001 11111 11101 11101 10111 111010 011100 11111 11010101 1101 1101010 11011 111010 11111 11111 11111 11011 10111111 110011 110101 110011 111101 1111010 110010 1101110 11011 11111 11101 11111 11011 111110 11001 11110 11111 10110110 11011 011101 1111 1100110 110111 11010 110111 1101110 100101 1111110 100111 110111 11111 111110 1111100 00111 111101 1101010 101011 110110 111101 110110 111111 110111 10111 110111 111111 1111011 1111 1101010 1111 11011 11011 11111 1111 110111 110111 111110 10111 110111 110101 110110 11111 1101110 110110 111111 110011 111111 110010 111100 11011 111110 110111 110111 111111 111111 111011 10111 1111001 1110 1111 11111 11101 1101110 1100010 11011 110110 1111100 11111 1111 11111 1111010 1101 11111 1010110 110011 01111 11110 111110 110010 10011 1111 111111 111101 01101 11111 111111 111111 101101 111111 11111 111110 11111 11110 01101 111101 111101 111110 1110010 1001001 111111 110110 110011 111100 11011 110110 1111 110110 11111100 11111 11111 11011 110001 110110 1101010 11001 100101 10111 111111 1111110 11001 111010 11101 01111 110111 10001 101101 0101 11011 111111 11111 11011 11101 110111 1111 111000 1111 11101 1111
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 504
  • 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; den, og, jeg, d, af, de, mig, det, tre, hun, du, dig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, om, da, de, af, tre, man, hun, ved, og are repeated.

    The author used the same words jeg, her, hun, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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