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

Paa Høien der, ja rigtig, min Moer,
Hvor Ahorntræet skygger,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabaXcXXXXXXXXd XXXXeXXXXdXdfXXXXX XXXXXbXbXXXXXXeXXX XXXgXbXXXhXhXbXiiX dXXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXh aXaaeXXXXXXbbbXXXX XXeXXXXXeXXXgXXXXX eXXfaXXfXXXXXXbXaa XXXXXXXhafaXXXXfXX ifXXXXcXXXXffXXbbX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXjfXj XXciXkXkXXXXiXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 110010 01111110 1101110 10111001 1001010 111011 11011000 1000111 1101110 101110 1100110 100 111 101111 1010 1110 11101 111001 010110 10011111 1111110 111111 1111011 1000111 11111 110010 111111 111111 111011 110 1010 1111100 1000 1110 11111 1101011 10011 1101101 111100 10110111 1110011 111100 01111 11111 1111 11111 1111 100 101 1111111 1010 1010 1110 11011111 111100 11110001 111110 100010 1110110 1110100 110110 1010111 11011 1000111 110101 1010 1110 111111 101 101 10110 11001111 100111 11011111 11101 101111 111110 1001101 1101110 1011101 110111 101111 11111 111 101 100011 111 101 10111 111111011 110100 1111101 110101 101111 1111 110111 110111 1100110 11101 1011111 11111 1110 1110 1011001 111 100 1001 1110111 110101 110111111 110001 111111 1101010 111110 110110 1110101 010011 1110101 11011 111 110 1111111 111 1110 1110 110101 111110 10101010 11110 1011111 1111001 101011 1100110 001111 110110 111101 1101110 111 011 1011111 11 11 10111 111011111 111100 11011101 11011 1011101 1011011 111111 01011 111011 1101110 1111111 1011110 1010 1100 1010111 1110 1010 11011 1101111 11110 110111000 11100 111100 10110100 1111011 1111110 11111 1100010 1110111 110110 110 1100 111111 1111 1111 10110 01010111 111110 1110101 1101110 111110 1111 1010100 011111 1110101 1101110 111111 1111110 1100 1110 1110101 110 110 1101 11110110 110100 111110000 111011 1010101 11110110 111011 111110 111111 111100 1110111 1101100 1110 111 111111 101 011 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 216
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, og, see, au are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word see is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, hun are repeated).

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