This is an analysis of the poem Rhitra that begins with:

Den Møller stod paa Høien
Hvor over Skovens Top...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXb XXcXdXeX XXXeXfdX XbXXXXXX XXgXXhXh XhXhXXXX XiXXXXXX XXXXXXXf XbXXbXXX XXXXXaXa XfXXdXXf XXjXXXXX dXXXiXkX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXl XXXXXXXX XXXXXXlX XgcgXfjg XXXeXXXf XgXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXeXXXXX XXXiXXXX XXmXXXXX XXXXXXXg XdXXlXXX XXXfXaXX 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,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 110101 11111 1011110 11111 11111 1111110 11111 111101 110011 1101110 111111 1101110 11111 111101 11011 111110 11111 111110 11001 110111 11111 1111110 11100 01111 010101 11011100 110111 1111110 110111 111111100 111111 1100110 11101 1100011 111011 11101 111111 1101010 10101 111100 10011 110110 111011 1111110 110111 11111 111101 11111 110111 110111 1111 111110 110111 11111 110110 110010 1101 1111000 11011 1101110 111111 11111 11111 11111 100101 1111100 11111 111011 11111 1101110 11011 1111110 10110 11001 110111 1101110 1101 110101 111101 111110 11111 11111 11010 111110 11110 01111 10111 1111110 110101 110101 1111 11111 101101 111111 111111 11010 11101 1101 111 111111 1111 1101101 11011 111010 11111 10101 111101 111110 1111 1101110 11011 111111 110101 1101110 1101 111101 1111 11011 110111 11111 1111 111010 111101 1001110 11001 11111 1101 100111 1101 11111 11111 1111110 111100 111101 101 110101 11011 111100 11011 110110 11111 1111110 111001 101010 1110 1110111 110111 11111 11111 11011 110111 11011 1111 11111 11111 11101 101010 11111 11111 111110 111111 101110 111100 110110 110010 11111 1111 1111 110111 111110 1001 111110 11110 11101 111110 11110 111111 111111 110101 110111 11111 1111110 1111 111110 110111 11111 111111 111111 111111 111110 11111 011011 1111 111111 11101 1111110 11011 1101 11111 1101110 101101 10111 10111 10101110 11011 110110 11011 11011 11110 111111 11010 111111 111100 111101 111011 111101 11010 1011110 11111 11111 00111 1101110 11011 1111010 111101 11111 11011 1101110 1111 1111 1101 111110 111110 11010 11101 1111110 11101 111111 11101 111101 111011 1110110 11011 11111 11111 111111 11101 111011 1111 1101100 11101 11011 111111 100111 100001 111110 111110 110111 111001 1111010 11111 1101010 110111 110111 110101 1100010 1111 11111 11111 11111 11011 111010 11001 1101110 1001 0100011 111101 1111100 11111 100110 11011 111010 111110 1101100 11111 110101 110111 11110 110111 111101 110101 010010 11111 111001 1010111 1101111 111110 11111 11111 110110 1111 11111 1111 1111110 1101 111110 11001 11011 111001 1100110 11100 11110 11011 110110 11111 11010 10111 11111100 110 111111 11101 101111 110111 1111010 1111 1111110 11101 110111 11011 111110 11011 1111101 110111 111111 110111 1101100 110110 111101 10111 110101 11111 101011 111110 01111 101111 1101110 111001 110001 11001 1101100 110
  • Amount of stanzas: 44
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 352
  • 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; jeg, de, og, han, var, hun are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, de, med, og, hun, det, han are repeated.

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  • summary of Rhitra;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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