This is an analysis of the poem Paa Herreborgen that begins with:

Og det var de Bønder
I Fensmark By...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbcb cXdXXXXX XeXefXXg XXXXXXXX hXXXXXXX XijXgXXi XXkXXXXi XlclXXXX XgXgXgXX XXgmignX hiXXciXi jXiXXXXX XXjXdiXX XXXXoXXX XpXXjXXX XXXXXhXX XXXhXeqf XXXXkXXh XXXlXXXX hlXlXXXX XhXhcdXX XXXoXXhX doXoXXXX XXXXanXX XXXXkXqg iicXXXik XoXoXXXX XXXXkXXi hXX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 1101 11001100 010111 1101 01011 11011100 101001 1101110 1111 11110 11111 1101100 11111 10011 01111 111010 110111 11111 110111 110111 110100 110001 110111 1101110 110101 1101110 110101 1111110 1111 1101010 11101 010110 100111 1101010 11111 1100110 1111 110101 0111 110110 1111 111101 110110 100111 11111 11111 11111 11111 11011 110001 110001 111110 11011 1111010 11101 11010 01011 110110 101101 1111 111101 1111 1111 1110 011111 11111 110101 11101111 111 110111 11110 1111110 0111 110111 11111 11011 10101 1101111 11111 110101 11111 1111110 100100 111010 110111 111111 11111 11011 101101 11101 1100110 110110 1111 111010 11111 111110 111111 111111 11111 11111 111101 11011 11111 111111 110111 100100 110100 11010001 11111 111110 110111 11111 10111 11111010 1111110 11111 111001 11011110 11011 1101010 101011 11001 111101 110110 11001 11111 11101 1111011 101101 11010101 1111 1111 11011 111011 1111 11100 11011 11111 110001 110101 111 1101 1101 110110 1111 1101100 110011 1111110 10111 111101 101100 1111110 110111 1101010 1110 11111 11111 110111 1011 11011 11011111 011110 111011 111110 11111 011101 11101 1101110 110011 110110 11111 1010110 1111010 111110 11111 110110 110111 1111 11111 1101110 1011010 11001 110010 01111 11011 110001 11011 110110 11111 11111 101011 111111 1101 110101 110100 1101111 11101 1111 11101 111101 111101 1101010 11110 1111110 1110001 1111 11011 1100100 111101 110110 111011 1111100 010111 111111 110111 1100110 111111 110111 110101 110111 11111 11111 11011 1101110 110111 11111 11101 100111 11111 110111 1011101 11111 11111 1111110 11011 111000 110101 111110 110110 1111110 101111 10100101 11011 111111 111010 110101 1111110 1100110 1010001 011110 110101 0111 1011 111110 1111 010100 011110 110110 101001 11011 111111 11011 11101 10011 110111 111110 111001 11110 1100 11110 11011 101101 110111 011101 11011 111110 11111 111111 11111 11111 11011 1100111 110101 01111 11101 1111110 111 110011 11111 111110 1101 1110 11111 110111 111101 10110 01011 1111110 11101 11001 11101 11111 111000 11011 111101 110100 110101 110111 11111 1111 11001 11111 1101 1111010 0101 1101010 110010 1000110 1111 1101 1111 110011 1011010 111100 11101 1111010 11010 1000110 110111 1101110 1111110 110111 1101110 11111 11111 11111100 10111 011110 11100 110111 111111 1001110 111101 111011 110111 11110 11011 110011 110001 111111 111110 111110 11101 111010 010101 1011010 1111110 11101 110111 110101 11011 1100010 110111 110110 110111 11111 11110 110101 11111 100101 10011111 100111 101111 1111 100111 11011 11111 01100 11011 1101110 11111 1101110 110111 110110 1110 1101010 11011 110111 111111 11111 111010 1111010 11001 0111 11011 1111010 01111 010111 10011
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 400
  • 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; og, hans, du, med, en, de, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, og, har, det, her, jo, jeg, de are repeated.

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