This is an analysis of the poem Lysets Flugt that begins with:

Sagtelig den sorte Nat
lister frem af Skov og Krat,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXX XXXXXXbXXXXXXXccXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXddXXcXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,38,8,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111 1011111 1011101 1110101 1111111 1111101 1110101 10111 1001111 11101 101011 1100111 10011101 101101 100110 101111 111011 111011 111111 111110 1110101 10111110 10000110 1011111 101111 1011111 1100101 1010101 111111 1011101 101101 101111 1110001 111011 0101110 111100 101110 11111011 1111101 1011101 1101011 1101111 111111 111011 111100 1110100 111110 1110110 1011101 10101100 1111010 11110 101111 11111 111101 111001 111011 111101 1111111 110010110 101101 1011110 101101 1110011 101111 101101010 11101100 011111 111011 101111 11111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 499
  • Average number of words per stanza: 101
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, det, nger, l, r are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ud, ret, fra, opad, nu, l are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nger, kker, r are repeated).

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