This is an analysis of the poem Indskrivter Paa Min Søsters Rokkebrev that begins with:

Da Adam kom fra Paradiis
Han Hest for Ploug mon binde;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX aXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX X XXbX cXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXaX cXXX X XXXbX XeXfX gXXXX hXXfX XXiXX XjXXa XcXXk lmXgX iXXXX iXXXX ihXXX ilXXa X XXiX fXXXX XkiXi XlXXX XXdXX XXiXi XhXXX XeXXX XXXXX aXiXX XXXXX XXXXX X XXXXXXmmkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,4,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,1,36,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011100 111111 1110101 10011 11011100 11111 1110111 110111 11110101 111110 11010111 1111000 110111 110111 11011111 111111 1101111 11011 111111100 111101 0111111100 110111 01111111 111001 1 1011010 11110 11011101 111110 1110111 11101 11010111 11111 11011100 11111 11011000 110001 10011111 111100 1101011 1101100 11001111 11001 1100111 111111 11100011 110111 11000111 111111 1100111 111110 111111 101110 1110100 1101010 1101100 1101100 111101 1100110 11011111 111101 10011100 11111 1101111 110111 1100010 100110 1110101 1111010 111101 110100 110111 110110 1 10 1110 1010111 1010111 11111 10 101101 11111 111111 1001111 1 10011 1010111 101011 1001111 10 1001000 11111 101111 111111 1 110011 1011010 1111111 11101010 10 1111 1011101 1000101 1011 10 101101 1111101 11101 101111 10 101001 1011110 10101111 11101010 010 11100 1011111 111111 11110 010 1000101 1011110 1011101 111100 010 10111 1111010 110101 10111010 010 0010101 1011101 1001100 110111 1 1001101 111110 1100100 111011 10 111101 11101110 110011 10111010 10 1010111 10011010 1100100 1111010 10 1111 111111 1110110 101111 10 1010111 101111 1100111 11111 10 1010111 10011110 10111010 1011110 10 1110110 1101011 1011100 1111101 100 1100111 1100111 1010100 1010011 10 111100 10110010 10101 1100110 10 1011101 11101010 1111100 10111100 10 111100 11111010 111101 1011000 10 11101011 1111110 1111111 10101110 1 111101111 1101111 10110111101 11011110 11111111 111101100 111101101 11111111 01111111 11111101 101011111111 11111111 011111011 1101101111 1111111 11011110 1101101101 1001110 0111110 11111111 1110111 11111011 1101101011 1101111 1101111011 110111111 110110111010 110111110 110111111 11011111 11111100 110111100 110111111 110111100 1101111 1101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 47
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 235
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; og, med, sin, s, saa, de, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, den, en, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines januar, n, e, de are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.

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  • summary of Indskrivter Paa Min Søsters Rokkebrev;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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