This is an analysis of the poem Paa Grevindens Fødselsdag that begins with:
Der er et Sted paa en af Danmarks Øer,
Et deiligt Sted, ret som en engelsk Park,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXXX XcXcXXXX aXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111100 1101111101 1111111 1111111 110011111 101111100 111111101 11011110 111011111 1111011111 1110111101 11111111 1000011111 110110111 111111101 101011110 11110101010 111111111 1101110110 11110110 11011101010 11101111 1111011110 11111011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; er, en, der are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word en is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase der connects the lines.
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