This is an analysis of the poem Sjelland that begins with:
Jeg synger, som jeg kan,
Men ei altid, som jeg vil, -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXb XXXXXbXX cXXdXXXX XXXeeXXX XffXXXXX XXXXXgXX XXXXeXXX XXhXXXXX XfXffXXX XXXeiiXi XXXXXdXX XgXgXXXX XiXXXfXf eeXXXXXX XXhXaeXe ciXXXXXa XfXXXfXf XXXXXXXX cXXXXaXa XXXXXXXX bXXXXXXX ebXXXiXi
- 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,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 1110111 111101 11111100 1111110 111 110110 11111 111110 11101 11001 11011111 11011 11111 1101 11001 110010 11001 11100 1101 110111 111001 11011111 110111 1101110 11111 11111111 11111 11011 111111 1111 110111 1100110 110111 1101 1110001 11010 1111 1101 111101 1100110 11100 1101010 1101 1100110 11001 110111 11001 1011110 11111 11011 11100 1101110 1111 11010101 11000 110111 11111 11001 110101 11111 111011 111110 10110 1110100 110111 1111010 11101 1101101 111100 00111111 111001 1111100 111101 1101110 111001 1110111 1101 10010101 11001 1101 110101 11110 110101 110110 1101 11010 110001 1101010 11111 11100 10101 110101 11111 111100 110110 110010 110011 01101 1111 1101000 110001 111110 11111 11011 1111 110110 11111 1101010 11011 11111 110101 1101010 1010011 11111 010001 1101010 11011 1100010 11111 110010 1101 110010 11100 1101110 110100 1101110 010 11001 110111 11010 100111 11111 11111 1101110 11101 100100 11100 111110 110101 1011 11010 1110010 1100101 110110 101011 110101 1111 110110 11111 11111 11111 11011 110111 100101 11101 1001000 110110 1111 11011 11111 111101 1111110 1110010 11111101 111111 110101 110101 110011 110101 1100110 100100 11111 111111 111 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 176
- 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, med, og, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, der, fra, i, og, jeg are repeated.
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