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

Ak, bedste Hr. Cornilsen!
Saa hør mig dog engang, -...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXX XdXXXXXX XXXXXXXe XXXXfXXX XgXXXXXX XdXdhXhX XXiXXXjX XXXXXXkX XXaXXaXa XXXXXXXX XjhXXiXi XXXXXeXX XXXXXXhX XXXeXXXX XeXXXXXX XbXbXeXX XXglXXXX XiXihXXX XgXXXgXX XXXXXXXX XXiXXXim dXXXXeXX XgXXXXXX imXXXXXX XXXhXXXX iaeXXXXX hXXXXgXX XXXdXkXX XXk
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100 111110 1101111 11001 11111 100111 1111010 1110110 1011000 11011 111111 1111 11101 11111 11111 110011 111100 110110 1111010 11110 11111 111010 1101000 110111 1111000 11011 1111010 11111 111110 11001 1110001 11001 1001110 1111 1111011 10110 1101110 110110 1101110 11111 1001010 110111 110101 101111 1111110 110011 1111110 11111 1111010 111111 111111 111010 110111 11010 11111 11011 111110 1010101 1101100 11001 110110 11111 110011 1101 11111 1111111 111111 111001 110011 11111 11001 10011 111111 11110 110100 110111 01010 11001 11011 110111 1101100 11001 111110 11111 11100 11010 11011 11111 1111100 111100 11001 11111 11001 111111 11111 110010 1001110 11001 1101010 11111 1111110 111001 111110 111 111111 11110 1101 11111 1101100 11111 1111110 11110 11111 11001 110101 11101 111101 101110 101101 101110 110110 110101 11101 11101 10011 11111 11111 111100 110110 11110 11011 111111 110111 111111 101101 101101 101111 11111 11111 11010 1111010 111111 111010 111111 1111110 110111 1101110 111101 11111 11001 11011 1100100 11111 110111 11111 1101 1111110 110111 1111110 1111 111101 111111 010011 111111 100110 11010 111110 101111 111111 11001 110010 100001 1110110 11001 110110 11011 1111 11011 111110 11101 111110 100111 111110 11110 1110110 111111 1111000 1011 110110 11001 111110 11111 1100010 111001 01110 1101100 11011 110111 1101000 1101010 1101110 11011 100101 1110 1101110 11001 1100110 110111 1101110 11011 11101 110111 1100110 11011 1100100 111101 010100 1011 111111 11011 111110 111111 111111 111011 1101110 11110 110111 110011 111111 11111 110101 01111 011000 110011 11110111110 110101 1101011 11010 111010 11011 1101100 10011 111110 110111 110110 11011 1101100 11001 111111 11001 11111 1110 1000011 1110 1101110 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 256
  • 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; det, og, han, den, d, i, jeg are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words det, han 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 i connects the lines.

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  • summary of Haren;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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