This is an analysis of the poem Nisserne Paa Vandring that begins with:

De stakkels Smaanisser, de undes ej Ro;
slet Ingen har nu den gamle Tro,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XXXXb ccXcX XXXXX XdXdX XeXXb XXXfX XgXgX XXXXX XhXhX XXhfX XhhXX eeXeX XXXXX XXXXX XXXhX hhXXX XaXaX XXXXX XhXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010001011 11011111 1101110 110101111 11011110 1110111 101011001 11110100 11011101 11011010 10101111 10011111 01110001 11111101 111101 1110101 111111001 1101110 1101111111 1001111 101111100 1111111 1110011 1111101 1111101 1111101001 010110111 1101000 111111110 11010110 1111101111 100101011 1100111 111101111 110111 11010111 111011101 1101100 110101111 1100011 1100111 01110111 1110110 11001110 1110110 10011100 1101111 1110110 11001111 111110 11101100 111111 111101 1101101111 1101100 110101100 110010100 1101111 111011011 110110 111101111 11011101 111001 101101111 1011011 110101111 11011101 1101110 110111111 111101 11010101 110101101 1101001 10011111 01111 110111100 1110111 1110110 1101101101 1101110 11010111 0110111 10011000 110100010 11110110 101111 11010111 110001 11111011 1111011 11111101 11111011 111110 11111111 1111001 11010111 11011111 0111100 1101111101 110110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; de, en, dens, og, snart, saa, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words dens, snart, og, endnu, han are repeated.

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