This is an analysis of the poem I Jægerhuset that begins with:

En Rast fra Kongeborgen
Der ligger en aaben Plet...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX bXXXXcXX acXXXXXX XdbXXXXe XXXXXfXX XXXXgXXX XbXXaXdX XXXXXXXX eXXXXXXX XcfcXeXX XbXbXeXX XXXXXXXb XhXhgfXX XXXXXXXX XXXbXXXf faXXXiXi cjXjXXXX XbXXXXXe fdXdXXbX XXXXiXXX XkXXXkXX XiXigXdb XXXXXdXd XdXdXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX dXdXXcXX XbXfXiji 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111000 1101101 1101110 111001 110010 110101 110010 11101 11111 11001 1111 110101 11111 111101 11110 10111 101101 10111 111111 1011 1101010 10011 110110 10111 1111010 110101 11001 11011 110010 10011 11010 11111 11011 1110 1110110 11111 11101 111001 11011 111100 111110 1111 1110 101001 111100 11001 111110 110101 10010100 110011 11111 11110 1111111 111111 111110 111111 0111110 11111 1111100 100101 11111 111111 1111110 1110110 111011 1110111 11111 11101 1100110 11111 110110 110111 111101 11101 111110 111101 11111 111101 111110 1110011 1111 111111 11101 11111 111110 111110 111111 1111010 110101 11101 110110 11101 11011 1101110 110110 1110111 11111 11101 101110 11101 111110 11111 111110 11110 11111 11011 111101 11110 111011 11011 111100 111011 111111 111101 100110 11111 101110 110101 110110 11111 011110 11111 1100111 10110 11110 110101 11111 11101 1111010 110101 111110 11111 100111 10111 111110 11101 11101 111011 11111 110111 11111 1111001 11011 11111 111110 11111 11111 110011 11110011 11111110 11011 110110 11111 111101 111110 11011 110111 11111 010110 110001 11111 11101 1111010 110101 1101110 1011111 1101110 111011 1111111 1111 101110 110111 11011100 1111010 111110 110001 111110 111101 111110 100011 11110 110001 1101110 1101 111111 111111 11111 111011 110111 10111 110101 111010 1101110 11101 110111 11101 11111 11011 11111100 1101 1101111 11101 111000 1110111 111011 11111010 111111 111011 111111 10111 111110 11011 1111 11111 1111110 11101 110101 110101 1100110 11001 11101 11011 0111 110011 11111 1111 1101110 11101 111111 111101 1110111 110111 111110 110101 111111 11011 111110 11111 110110 110011 110101 110010 111010 111101 101111 110010 11110 11101 110111 1101111 11011 10111 1111110 111111 11111 110100 111110 100111 11011 110111 11111 11011 111010 101011 111101 101101 11011 1111 110101 111101 11011 110111 1101110 111101 11111 111101 111111 110111 110111 111110 111111 110101 11111 11101 110110 101110 110101 1111010 1111000 1111 1101000 010111 110111 110111 10101 11111 11010 1111 110110 101101 1110101 11101 11110 11111 1111100 11101 111111 111100 110110 11011 11110100 11111 011111 111111 11011 11111 110111 11111 110100 11011 110111 110101 111111 11001 11101110 11101 111110 111010 11111 11101 1101110 11111 110111 111011 11001 110111 11100 10011 110011 11111 110101 011101 100111 010110 11011 11011 1011110 10011 1111110 11011 111010 10101 1101110 011101 110110 111111 01111 11101 111101 110110 111100 110111 1101000 11011 110110 011111 1110110 10111000 011011 11011 01110 101111 11011 001111 11101 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 47
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 376
  • 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; jeg, og, fra, som, med, den, er, de, ham, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, den, og, han, fra, jeg, i, med, da, sin, som, det are repeated.

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

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