This is an analysis of the poem I Staden Og Paa Landet that begins with:

Prægtigt det er dog at bo i Staden!
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXbXX aaXXXX XXXXbX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111110 101011000 11111001 100011010 1011110 111111 11111111 10110001 10110110 101001100 101011111 111111100 11011110 1111010 1111101 111011100 11101100 11111 11101111 1011111 10111101 1111010111 1011101 10111110 1111111 110111 111101111 11111101 101110111 101110110 1111111 11111110 111101111 1011111010 110101110 1111011 10110110 1011011010 0111011011 11101101 10110110 10110111 10111101 1110010111 1011101111 100101010 1011110 11101110 10110110 11111000 1111111 110101111 10110111 1111010 1011010110 100011110 101011101 111100111 11111111 1001100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word h is repeated.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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