This is an analysis of the poem Tolvte Sang that begins with:

Fra Kirken til Theatret! Overgangen,
Naar brat den skeer, forvirre maa vort Sind:...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 87
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 312
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 781
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; man, d, de, den, som, han, og, f, i, mmes, var, det, en, hvor, jeg, ham, kan, sin, ja, af, nu, til, at, hans, rte, ved, du, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words til, det, hvor, og, han, var, vel, af, hvis, sin, hans, de, den, i, o, kun, du, hvad, der are repeated.

    The author used the same words han, her 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 ve, ie, sen, den, mmed, de, ved, d, re, mmes, mme, nge, se, der, kker, rer, dder, rte, le, reste are repeated).

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