This is an analysis of the poem Formens Evige Magie that begins with:

Om Kageformen, eller selve Kagen
Er Hovedsagen...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaX aXXXXXXX XbcXXXXXbXcXXXXcdXXdXXXXXXXXXXacXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXcXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,8,38,7,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100010110 01000 111011010 1101110111 110100111 11111110 110011011 1111010100 11111010 111101011 111101011 11111111 111111101 111110110 11111111 110111010 10010100 1001011010 111110 1010100 1001110100 10001100100 1110011100 11111110 1111111110 1000010110 111111100 110111101 0111111 11111011 111111110 11001101 111110100 111011 111100 111101101 110101100 110110111111 111000010 11110111110 1111100 1100101 11110101 1101110111 110101111 1110011100 1101110111 111011 11111101 100111111111 01100101100 11111101 111011000 1011100110 1111010 110111 10111011 111011110 101011111 0101110111 1011011 11110101 1101111 11 1101111 11111111 10010101000 1101010100 1111111 1011 11010 1110001110 111001100 0101110110 11101100 011111101 1011101110 11111 11101111 111111100 1100 101110110 0111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; lig, er, vinklen are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, eens are repeated.

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