This is an analysis of the poem Sommerflugt Og Hvile that begins with:

Gjærdet staaer med vilde Roser,
Nedenfor er' Tørvemoser,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXbXX XXXXXXXcX XddeaaXaX XXXXfaXXX aXabXXXXb XXXXaaXaX XbXXaXaXX XXXXXXXXc XXXcgggXc XXXbXXXXX aXXXXXXXX aXXaXXXXe XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXXXfXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 1001100 1011110 101111 10111 0110111 110111 1010010 11111 110110 11001100 10001110 100110 1101000 11101110 101110 11101110 1111 111011 1111110 1010110 111101 1111110 10101110 1111110 111110 1110111 1010110 10101010 111110 111011 001111 111110 1100010 1110100 111011 1010110 1010110 11101110 111001 110111 111101 1010111 10101 111101 10111 1110111 1110111 100110 11101110 10100110 1010010 1011110 101010 111101 11011 10110 1011111 1101110 10101100 1111010 10111110 0111110 1011101 110011 110111 111010 111011 111101 10011111 11111 111111 101111 111111 111111 10110 11111 101111 11111 11111 111111 10001110 1111010 1100100 1011101 1011110 11111110 1110110 1110010 11111 1001110 1110110 110100 111111 11101110 11111100 1111010 11101110 11111 111110 11101010 111100 111110 1010111 1111101 101100 111100 111101 1011110 1111101 11110 1011101 10111010 10111010 10111100 11111010 1011101 011110111 11011 1110111 11111111 101111 1010111 101111 1111101 1110111 10101100 1010110 11101110 101111 111010 101011 1011101 1010101 11111011 1111111 1010110 10111 1111111 111111110 111011 111100 101100 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, mme, hjertet are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mme, re, ger are repeated).

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