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

Kong Erik sad paa Gurve
I Høielofts-Sal;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXa XXXXbXXX XcdXXbXX XXdeXXdX XfaXgXXX XXXXXbXX XXXXXXbX XbXbXXXX XXXXXXaX XdXXXXaX XXXBXdXX XXXhibXX XXXXbXXa XXXXXbXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXbXXgX ejXjXbbX XkaXXXXX XXgaXXXX XbXXXXXX XXXXdXXX djlXXXXc XXXXXXXX jXXXXlXX XXXXXdbb dXXXXbXX XXXXgXXX XXk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1101 11001 1110110 110111 11100 111110 11011 1111110 11011 100110 11101 111101 101011 11001101 01011 1101111 11001 11110 11111 111101 1111 110010 110011 1101110 110100 111110 11101 0101010 0101101 1101110 11111 111100 1111 1111101 101101 111110 11111 1111100 110101 111110 111011 11011 110111 1111110 111111 111111 111101 11011 11011 11010 11011 111110 110110 11011 111101 111010 11111 11111 110111 111010 11101 110110 10111 11110 11111 11110 111111 110110 11011 11001 10101 111101 111011 11010 110001 110001 111000 1100110 1110 11100 111 111010 11001 01001 11011 1011101 10011 11011101 0110 011100 111101 1111 10011 110010 11111 110111 11111 11111 1111110 111101 101111 1011 1101 1011110 11111 111101 1101 11111 111101 111110 1110 11111 110011 111110 11111 110110 11111 101111 11001 01111 1101100 111110 11100 110011 110111 111110 11101 110110 1101 110111 101101 110110 111111 11110 1111 111110 111111 111111 11011 10111 1101101 1100111 110111 111110 111011 010010 11011 111111 111011 110011 11111 1111110 111110 111110 111101 11101 111100 11011 11111 111111 110111 110110 01111 110101 11110 111110 111110 110011 110111 111010 11011 1100110 11101 11111 11001 1111011 11111 1100101 101011 11101 1111 11111 11111 110110 11011 1111 11111 1101010 10111 0101 110110 1101001 11111 1111100 10111 1100110 111001 111110 1111 11011110 11111 1101010 1111 1110011 111101 11011 110111 11010101 1101 111110 110111 10111101 11100 11110 11110 110110 11011 10110 1111 11010 110011 11111111 11111 1101110 111 110111 11111 11100 111011 1110110 10011 11111 111101 111100 111001 1101110 11101 110110 11001 11111 11111 110100 11111 11010 1111 1101110 11011 111001 110111 110111 110101 1111000 11100 010111 110111 101011 110101 1101100 1111010 11110 1111 100111 110111 1101100 11011 1111 11111 1101110 11111 11101 10101 1111110 111001 101101 11001 111101 11110 110101 110101 1100111 11111 1111 11111 1111101 11111 11111 111011 111010 11101 111101 1111 1101110 10111 111110 110001 110011 111110 11111 11101 110110 110101 1111110 10111 110110 101001 111100 100010 111101 110011 111111 110111 10111110 110000 11110 110111 111111 111 111010 10111 1001010 11111 111010 110101 111010 110101 111111 101001 11111 11111 1101110 11101 11101 11101 111110 11011 111100 0101100 111100 01011 11111 11001 110011 11101 111101 11011 11111 01000 110110 11011 110110 0110100 1101010 11101 110111 111101 110101 11011 111110 11111 111111 11011 110011 110111 110111 1111 1101110 11011 1100110 11111 111110 11101 1101 111111 111110 111001 111101 11001 11011 111110 111100 11011 110101 1111010 111110 110011 11111 111110 111100 11101 1101100 1111 11101000 110111 1101 111001 1001110 111101 11110 111111 11110110 10111 110110 101001 0100010 0111 111110 11011 110011 11001 1111 111101 111111 11101 111100 110101 111110 11100 111110 11111 0111111 110111 01111 11101 111110 110111 1110010 11011 101111 1110 110111 101011 1111010 1101 11001010 1101010 111111 111110 110101 11010 1101010 11011 110110 111101 1111110 111101 11111 111100 1101 11111 1110 1101 11011 11111 11111111 11110 110110 1111111 111101 1111 111110 1111110 011110 1111 11111 110111 100101 110111 0111101 11101 11101 11110 11110 111011 111010 10111 11111 1100110 11110 11111 1101000 110101 111110 110111 1101010 11011 1111110 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 488
  • 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; de, d, hun, saa, han, min, med, og, ved, v, sin, man, jeg, hos are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, den, de, og, han, hvor, med, hun, ved, naar, ham, saa, man, hos, nu are repeated.

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

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