This is an analysis of the poem Drøm Og Virkelighed that begins with:

Det var en taaget Vinterdag,
Jeg til Palaiet mig skyndte,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXXb XXcb XXXX XbXX XXXX dXXX cXXe XXXX XXXb dXXX XXXX XXfX XXXX XXXX fXdX dXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XgXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XhXh XXfX XXcX aXXX XXca XXXX XXiX XXfg XXXX XXdX iXXX XXfX XXXX jXXX kXgX XXjX dXXX ibkb XeiX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110100 111011 110001101 110010 11110010 1100100 1111100 11111111 1100011 101000 11011101 010000010 111011 1110100 011111 1111100 010010 011111 1111110 110111 11111 11111010 111100000 1111 1001100 1100110 1100111010 11011110 11000111 11110 1101111110 11101101 11000111 111111 11111001 111111 1111101 1001100 111100 1111100 111111 1100110 111111100 111010 1111011 1101100 11011111 110100 11100101 1101010 111111 11000110 1111101 011111100 11111110 111110000 1010111 111101 11011101 1111 11011111 1110110 110111000 1101010 011101011 11111 11110011 111111 11111 111110 10010111 1101110 111101100 11011000 100111101 1101100 1011111 111111 111111101 11110 11011111 1111011 11111111 1110110 11010111 011110 1110111 111111 011011011 1110110 1111101 1111010 1101111 1011110 11111111 110110 10010000 111011 1110110 10111 11011101 111110 1111111 111110 1101111 110111 110110 1111011 1011100 11100 111111111 11010100 011001101 1111110 11001111 11010110 111110 111111 1100101011 11011100 1111111 111100 11110111 11101110 1111111 11011 11111011 111110 1111011 10110110 11111101 1101110 1101111 110110 11110101 111110 1111011 111101 1110011 110111 1100111 011101 1111011 11111 11011111 1111000 1101111 1111010 0101101 10111 111111 111101 1011110 11110 10111110 11110 1110111 10110 11100111 0111 10111101 10010 11011101 11111 1101100 1111110 1101111 1001000 1111111 111101 111101 11001 110101101 11000010 11111101 1101010 1101111 1110001 1101011 1111011 110101100 10011001 11110100 10011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 46
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; m, en, min, er, han, det, jeg, dr, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, min, det, saa are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases m, sov connect the lines.

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