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

Charon, Plutos Færgemand,
i sin Baad fra Land just stødte,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXX aXXXXXXX bXXXcXXX XXXXdeXX XXXXXXXf gXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXhXXXX feXXaXXh XXXbaXXX dXXdXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XXXXaiXX aXXXhXXX XXXXaXXa XXXXiXXX XXXXgiXX XXXaXXXX XcXXjXhj XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXa XXgXXeXX XhXXXXXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010 1111111 111111 111111 1111111 11101110 11100110 1111101 1001101 1111011 101111 111010 1110111 101111 011111 111111 101011 1011101 111101 101111 1011101 111010 1011111 100011111 1110111 111111 1110111 111101 11111 11100110 1100110 1111010 111011 101110 111111 1110111 101100 111110 0100100 1111111 111111 1010101 101110 1010101 1111110 1111101 111011 11011 110101 10011 111101 111101 101101 1111010 111111 1110111 011100 100101 1011101 111101 1110011 1110010 1110011 1010110 1110101 1110110 01101100 11100 1111101 11101010 10111110 111011 1011111 1110111 101110 11111 1101101 1010111 111111 1011101 1111101 111111 101111 1010111 1010111 1011101 1011101 111101 1111101 1101101 111011 101001 101111 111111 1110111 111011 11001 101101 10111 1001101 10111 11110 111111 1111 10111 1010101 110111 111111 10111 111001 1011110 1000101 1110101 1111110 11101110 1111101 1010101 110101 1110111 1010101 1111111 111111 11111 1110111 1110111 1100110 11101100 1110110 0100101 100101 1111111 11111 101011 11011111 1011111 1011110 111101 101111 110111 0111110 111011 1011101 111111 1010101 111001 1110110 1110110 1111111 111111 1110111 1010111 1111111 1110111 1011101 11111 1110101 101101 1010111 0110110 1110111 0110111 1100101 111111 101111 1011101 110111 1110111 0110110 1111111 1110111 111111 111101 1111101 11111110 1111110 111011 1111111 1011110 1111010 100101 1110101 11101010 1100110 1001111 101001 111001 1110101 100011 111111 1110111 110111 1110111 101111 0101111 1111110 111111 1011101 1010111 1010110 1111111 1111111 101111 111111 1111101 1010110 10111101 1010011 111110101 110111 1010001 1111111 111101 001110 11111010 1111100 111110 1000101 10111110 10100110 101011111 1011101 1011101 111111 111011 001011 111001 111101 111111 1111110 111110 1110111 110011 1010101 111110 1110011 1110101 1001101 111111 111111 101111 10111111 11101110 11101100 1111000 111111 1011110 1111110 1011101 1011111 110001 111111 1100011 1110101 110110 1110001 111010 0111101 1110101 1110111 1110001 111111 11011110 111100 1101111 11011 1111101 1010111 1111111 101101 1110110 1001111 1100001 111101 1101110 11111110 1010101 111110 1100010 11101110 1011101 1111111 11111100 1100110 1000111 1111101 1100011 111110 1110110 1011001 111111 101100 111011 1011101 1111110 1111100 1011111 1011101 1110111 101011 1111 1100001 1111100 10111110 111101 1111101 101111 1110100 101111 1110111 111010 111100 1010011 111011 1111110 11111100 10110 1011101 10111010 10101010 1111100 101111 111101 11011 1110001 101111 10111010 111110 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 328
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; d, r, de, i, du, dig, og, var are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, ngsel, rte, ie, lger, re, rmed, mte, den are repeated).

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