This is an analysis of the poem Rime-Djævelen that begins with:

Før jeg med Blæk Papiret vil bemale,
En lille Tale:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXaXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbXXXXXcXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXbXcXXXXXXXXXXeeXXdXfXXXXXdXbXXfXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXfXXbfXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 142,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100110 111 110110101 10 1111001111 110111111 1011111101 10111011 11110111100 11000 110111011 1101110101 01111011111 11100111101 011011111 01 1101010110 100 1110111000 11100 11011011 10 1101111100 110111010 1111101101 111001101 110111101 10101100100 11000 111110 011111010 111011110 111 11111110 1101111100 111111010 110111111 111111 111 1111010111 10110 1111110000 1111110101 1111 1101110110 11111101 111001101 111 1111010100 11111001 11110111 1101 1110011110 10110 11111111 10011 11111011110 11110 1011 1101111111 111100 110111111 1101111001 10 111101 111110110 10111101000 11111111 111111110 11111001 111001111 1111111 11111101010 1110111110 1111110011 111100 111111101 10110111 111111001 111111101 11111010 111111110 11111111 111111 1100111110 1111111110 1111110111 1111 1110111101 1101111001 11111111 111 11100 1110110 11111111 1111111 1110111100 1111010100 10101011 111101111 110101111 1101111100 111111101 1111110101 1111110111 1111 1101111101 111111110 011111 110 11 111111101 1111111 1111011011 11111110 11111110 11 111 11111100 1110111 110 11111101100 11011110110 11111100 100110110 111000100 111001111 101011011 11111111 11111 1111111101 1111011 111110111 110010100 11111101 11 110101110 1101111111010 11111011 1111010111 111111010 1101101101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4790
  • Average number of words per stanza: 952
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; du, saa, mig, han, jeg, de, og, man are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, vet, ngsel, ie, mpe, de are repeated).

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