This is an analysis of the poem Storken Er Reist Til Fremmed' Land that begins with:

Storken er reist til fremmed' Land, Spurven boer i dens Rede;
Løvet falder, men Bærret staaer redt paa den sorte Hede....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 100101101101111 11011111111 10101111101110 1011111110110 1001100101101 1011010111111 1010111111101 10110111101 1100111101 1111001111001 10100111111011 1110111110101 1010110110001111 101111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 767
  • Average number of words per stanza: 144
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; som is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lde is repeated).

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