This is an analysis of the poem En Aaben Hilsen Til Holger Drachmann that begins with:

Fra Mastetoppen de raabte: Land,
Den nye Verden! — Ja vist: der laa den...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXbXbXXXXXcX XXXXdXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXebeXXXXXX XXXXXXbXXXXffXXXggaXXXXXXXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXggXXXXXfXXXXeeXXXXXhXXXXXhXXXddbbbXXcXXXXXXXXiXXaXXXXXX XXiXXXXiXfgXfXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXbXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXhcdXXXXXXbgXbbXXaabXhhX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,12,19,98,40,28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000011 111011111 11010001 1100110011 10110001 1111110 11011111 11111110 111111 1111011011 11100001110 11111001110 110110111 110001111 111 110111 1011111 1110001110 11111 1110101111 10110111 101110101011 1011011111 111100111 1111011 110011110 110110000 11011100 10011111 11011100 101111101 111111101 101111100 110101111 11110101 110011111 1110101111 1111101110 111011101 11001110 111011011 11111111000 101011111100 11111111101 1011011101 1111010 1100111110 11111101 1111011011 11101111110 11011111101 1101111110 11110 111101111 1101101110 111100111 1111010010 11001011000 1101011 111111111 11111110110 10100011110 1101110 10001110110 111100110 011011111 1101101111 11111011 1110111101 111111101 11101111 111111111 1110111111 10101011000 111111111 1101111011 1010111111 10110011101 1110111010 1110111111 00111110010 111111101 01111101100 0110111110 110101111 1111101110 01111110010 11101 1101011111000 111110101 111101110 011111110 11011111 100111110 1100110011110 110010101 10101101000 11101111101 11011110 11011111 111011111111 11000110 110011111 11000111 110101110 11110111 1110111 101111110 110111110 101111100 1100101111 1111111 111101 110111110 111001010110 11101001 110011111 0101101111 1101011011 11111101 001110 1011110110 11011111110 1010110010 1111111 101011111 110001101 111100 11111011001 1010000110 1111111101 1010101 011110111 111111111 1111111 1110111001 110111100 110011111 10110101 0101111 1101111111 111011100 1111110110 1101111110 10111011 111011101 101110100 1101111111 010111011 1111101111 11111011 1111011110 111011111 101111 011110111 01011011110 110111010 111010111 1010100110 0111001111 11011101100 111111111 11010111 110110010 1100001001 11010111 01111111 11111111 11111111 111011111 111111011 11011011011 1101011010 11111111111 111011101 111101111 0010101110110 11100110110 11100100100 11011101000 0010010111 1111111101 111101111 101100101 1101101 1010111111110 11011 111111 111110111 11101111 111101111 11001111 1100011000 101111110 110110110 11011000 1110110111 1001111110 11011000 101111111 10101110 111111000 101101110 110111010 110111 11111111 1111111111 0111011101 00111111 111111000 111111101 11011001 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1373
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 213
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • 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; den, mellem, og, en, som, mig, de, dit, du, i, lge, har, end, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, med, mellem, den, hvor, du, om, jeg, som, end, er are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kket, gt, nner, de, jet, le, ve, lge, re, l, ld are repeated).

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