This is an analysis of the poem Paa Grænsen Mellem Stad Og Land that begins with:

Paa Grænsen mellem Stad og Land,
dér saae jeg Livets første Vaar,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XbXb XXXc dXdX eeXX XXXX fXfX XXXaXcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 10111011 1011111111 110111 1111110 11010101 1101111 10111100 1011111 10111111 1111100 1101111 1101010 11010111 1101110 11111111 11011101 1101111 11110 1101111100 101011 111011 10110010 0101101 11001101 11111101 111101110 1111110 11011110 11001111 1101110 111011 111111 1101100 1101111 1101011 11010101 11110101 11110011 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 119
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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 is repeated.

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

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

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