This is an analysis of the poem Ensomt Liv that begins with:
Jeg sad alene paa en øde Gaard,
hvor høje Skrænter lude ned mod Havet:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XbXX XcXc bXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11111110 110100111 11110111000 1111000101 111111101 111111111 11101101 100111111 1010100010 1001011100 1111000110 1101110100 111111100 111111101 111101010 1111011111 110111111 111111111 11011100010 0101110101 1011011110 1111011111 11111011000 110110001 111110111 110111100 11111110 1111110111 111010001 11111011111 1101011101 111110111 11110101110 111110111 11011101110 110111111 111011110 110111111 11010111000 11011101100 111101111 1111011011 11111111 1101111111 1110010110 110110111 11011101110 1111011110 1111110001 1101110100 1111110110 110111111 1101111100 1101110111 1101111010 101111011111 110111111 110111011 1101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ud, flyv, du, og, i, det, snik, snak, vi are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same words og, i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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