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

Ned over Tiberen og Romas Høie
Sit første Lysglimt sender Dagens Øie,...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,28,20,44,8,8,8,18,24,26,44,28,42,44,43,51,70,42,16,40,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001101 111010101 1111010101 110010101 1101111110 1111111110 110111111 1001010100 1101110110 1101000100 110111010 110101110 11111100 1101111111 1111100010 110111110 1111011101 11101011 1111111110 1111011110 11110101101 110111101 011110111 1111110110 110100111 110111101 1101011101 110101111 1100011001 11111 111001110 1111111 110111100 1011010 111010101 0110100 111101101 11011111 110100111 101101101 11111101 111000111 1111011101 1101010101 100101001 1111010111 1101010110 111010110 11101111 1110000101 110010111 111110011 111011111 11111111 111110111 01010111010 1111010101 1101011011 01011111010 1110101110 111111111 011101111 101110011 11101011 11111111 110111101 11011111 111111110 111101111 111111101 1111111010 11111111010 1101110101 11011111 11010101100 11110010 110011001 1101011000 1101111010 110110010 101101101 1100100111 111010110 1111011 110001001 1111011 111111111 111111111 11111111 11010111 1111101110 11001111100 11000111 1101010101 1111111101 011101111 11011111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 644
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; alt, i, paa, d, der, den, f, og, h, r, atter, hun, sin, rte, sig, er, snart, det, hendes, k, til, ved, m, var, lad are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words alt, hvi, og, medeet, f, ei, af, tilsidst, hun, o, snart, den, var, da are repeated.

    The author used the same words hun, og 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 ie, d, der, nger, iet, ver, rer, re, rt, kker, st, rte, res, m, lger, ngsel, ved, rk, ndte, k, den, nder, vet, red, ret are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ned connects the lines.

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