This is an analysis of the poem Rudolf Og Bertha that begins with:

I Skoven Stormen suser, og hvirvler Sneen hvid,
Der tumler ned fra Himlen i skumle Midnatstid;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX bXXc dXXX bXXX XebX XXbX aaXX XfXX XXXX bXXX XXXX ccXX cXcc XXXb gXbb XXXX XXbb XXXX XXff XXXX hhXX XdXX iXXi XbXX ggXX XXXX XXXX XXXX eXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101011011 110111011100 110101011111 1100010111001 1010101011 1111001101 110011110111 110101011100 110110110001 111100110001 111100110110 11011111111 11011110011 11010101101 11101011111 1100101111 1101010110001 1111111100 1101010111 101111011111 110111011101 1111110111 1111110111 11101101111 01111100111 010101110 0111111011 10111111100 11110011011 11110111111 110111011111 11011111011 1011010110111 11111111 110111111 1011110111111 111111011111 1111011011 110101110111 11111011111 11110011011 11111111001 11111110101 111101110001 01111110111 11011111111 1111110100101 111110111 1111101111 101110110111 10011111011 1101111110001 110001010011 11011101110 1101000110111 111101111111 110111011100 1111110110010 11010111111 11110011011111 1101010111101 111110110110 1111111111 1111111101 1111010101101 1111111011111 11010111001 11111011011 11011110111 1111011111 11101101101 11011111101 111111011 11101111011 1101100111101 11011101110 111111111101 111110111110 11111011011 111111110111 1111010111101 11111011111101 11111111011 11110111111 110011011111 111110110111 11111110110 1111111010 011111110 11011110111 1111011111101 111111101111 111110110101 111111111 111110101111 11111011011 011111010111 1111111111 11111011110 1111111111 111111111111 1101111111 1101101111 11011101101 010111110110 1111101111 111100111101 11111111001 0101111110 111100110111 111110110111 111101011101 11100110111 11011111111 11101110111 11110111100 1101111111 11011111011 101110100111 111001011111 11011011011 11000110001 11010111011 11111011010 110111111 11101111101 11010111101 11011110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 128
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, den, og, saa, ei, det, paa, hun, min, jeg, som, er, nsker, var, med, r, sin, en, d, sig, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, hun, de, min, jeg, den are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, da, de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rn, d, r, s are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word d at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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