This is an analysis of the poem I Rom 1854 that begins with:

Jeg atter hende saae
Den babylonske Sløie;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX XXXXXBCX XXXXXXXX dXXXeXXX fXXXXXdX gXXXXBCX XhXhXXcX iXXXXXjX XXjXXXXX kXklXXlX kXXcbXXX dkXXXXXX XXXXXBCX XXXXiXXX XXgcabfX XXXkXXXX XXeXkaXX XXjcdXXX XXXXcXXX XXXXfXXX XXaXXBCX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 11001 11101 0111 110101 110101 11111 11001 111111 1101010 110101 10111110 110001 11111 110100 100011 111110 1111 111110 110101 111100 11111 100110 110111 10010 1101000 111101 111000 111100 110110 11011 01110 111111 01110 110101 110010 10100 111100 1110 110101 110101 110110 110100 0100110 110001 11111 110100 100011 110111 11011 100101 111101 010101 111111 101000 100101 01101 110110 111111 1101100 110111 11101 111101 11110 11100 101111 11111 100111 101011 110100 111101 11111 100101 0111 110101 110111 110011 10011 11111 111001 11001 1011010 100110 1100110 01101 01111 0111 11001 101111 1111 110101 11011 11110 110100 101110 110100 100100 111110 11101 1111111 110001 11111 110100 100011 010111 111111 101111 110101 110001 111101 110001 11111 11000 1111110 11101 111110 01111 010111 110011 11100 11101 11011 110111 111111 11000 101111 111101 01110 110100 010100 101111 110110 11111 110111 11111 11011 1111 010100 110100 110110 100101 11100 100101 100110 110111 11010 111 110101 110110 1110 1010 110101 1110 1101100 11010 110100 11001 110001 110101 11001 110101 11110 11101 111110 110001 11111 110100 100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, deres, det, den, de, med are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hen, og, nu, den, de, med, om are repeated.

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

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