This is an analysis of the poem Da De Rev Voldene Ned that begins with:

Hvad gaar der af Dig, min Fødeby?
Hvilken Byggen og Roden!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXX XXXXbcXc XXXXXXXX dXXXXXcX XXXXXXXX XXXdXXXX XeXeXXbX XXXXXXfX XXgXgXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXfhih agaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXdX XXhXXXeX XXXiXXXX gXXXcXXX jXjXXhXh XXXXXdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1010110 1101101011 100110 111111010 01111 110110010 1111 11111111 101000 11010111 1010100 111101101 11111 11110111 10111 011100011 01110 11111011 111 11010111 11110 11011100 11110 111011110 101100 1111111 1100 1100011000 111100 111011111 10101 11101101 1110 11010111 111 11011100 1111 1111110 1110 1100101101 10110 11111010 1110 10101111 111010 111111111 11100 111011111 11101 11110011 11111 111111 11110 1111011101 10110 11110110 110000 001001101 11100 011111000 1101 11111001 1111 11011100 110110 1110110101 11010 111101101 110010 110011100 1010110 1011011011 10110 11001110 110110 1101111101 111 11101100 1111 101111111 11111 11101111 11011 1000101110 11111 111111000 11001 1111010101 1101 101101101 11000 111101011 11100 10101110 11000 100111110 111010 11111111 1010100 1011101101 11110 1101111011 01100 1111100 110110 110100100 110110 11111100100 11001 11100111101 01001 11011111 11000 1101000 10011 100110000 10010 110001111010 1110 1101111101 1011 1010011101 11101 111111111 111010 10110111 101100 111110111 1101 111111100 1101 1011011 1011 10100111010 11111 101011101 110000 1010101100 11010 11111111 11110 11111101 1110 11110111 111 1101100111 01010 11111111100 11111 1111011011 11011 101111001 111010 11110101 1011 1101111 10110 11111110 10100
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, i, jeg, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, hvor, og, jeg, disse are repeated.

    The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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