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

Og hende saae du ikke?
„Hr. Ridder, ak nei!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaXXXXXXXXbXXXXXbXX XXXXcXXXXXXbXXXXXdXXXdXX aXaXXeXXXXXXXXXXecXXXXXeXXfXXXXeXXXg XXXgXXXXXXXbXhXh XXiXXXiX ibgXXdXXXXXX dXXX XXXX ibXbXXXX XXXX XbXbXXXX XXXXXXXadXXfXbXgXXXhXfXfXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,24,36,16,8,12,4,4,8,4,8,56,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 11011 1111 111111 111101 11110 11111 111010 1101010 1111 110111 110111 11111 11010 110111 11101 11111 11111 11101 11010 110111 11111 11101 1111000 11101 110110 11111 11011 111110 100111 110011 11111 11010 111110 111110 11111 1111110 11111 1111000 111101 111110 110110 1100100 110100 1001100 11001 100111 11100 111101 111010 100111 111100 11101 1101 11111 11101 111110 11100 1101110 111100 110111 11100 11011 111 110011 1111 1111 111100 01100 11011 110111 11111 11101 110001 100101 110111 110100 010111 100101 111101 11011 11111 110111 1100111 110110 110111 11100 11011 1101110 110111 1110110 11111 100001 11111 110111 10111 110001 111101 11111 111101 1110010 010100 1100010 011000 1110010 111001 111110 1111 10101010 111101 110011 111111110 1111010 11001 111110 111110 111110 11011 1111100 1111111 111110 111111 1101110 111101 110110 11001 1101110 111011 111110 110111 1100010 11101 11100 111111 10011 11111 111100 0111100 1111001 1100110 11111 110111 11111 110111 11110 11111 111110 111010 111010 110111 111110 1110001 111111 110111 111111 1100010 111010 100100 1101000 11001 110111 1111 11111 1110001 11011 11110 11111 010101 111101 111111 110101 1111 1111 11001 1111 11110 111101 1011 11111 11100 111100 111101 110100 11011 11110 110011 101101 11111 110111 110111 11010 111001 110111 110001 11111 11101 1111000 10011 11101 11100 111110 11001 11001110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • 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; sine, en, med, min, r are repeated.

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

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

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