This is an analysis of the poem Revolutionstiden that begins with:

Giganten var styrtet; paa ensom Ø
maatte han, som rystede Verden, dø....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXXXbXXcddXdXXbXeXXXffaXgXXdXXXXXXXXXX XbXXXXccXXXXhXXXXXdXXfeXXX fXbXXXXXaXXdeeXXdXdd X X fifXXccX XXjXXXXXX XXXXXXbXX XXbXXbeeX eXXjXXXXX bXXXkXXXX XlXlfXXXX XXXXXXXXX X X bXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXcXX cXXXXXXX dXXXXXXhX XXXXXXXXh biXXXXXXX XXXXXXXd XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,26,20,1,1,8,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,1,1,11,9,8,9,9,9,8,8,9,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110110 11110101 1111110001 11110111 1111111 100101 1101101101 11111011100 11011101 111101100 11111111 11111100 1100011 110101111 110111111 1111101 110111101 111111001 110101101 1111011 111111 1101001011 111111101 1110101100 110111101 1101111 1111101 111111001 110110001 1111111 110110111 11111101 11101110 111111 11011100 10111101 11110100 01011101 11011111 10111101 111101101 101111101 1111111 11010011 11111101 111010111 11111110 1101101001 1111101 110111000 110101111 01011011011 110111101 110101101 1111101 11111000 1111001101 11011111 1100011 10111011 1101111001 1111001110 1011011 11101111 11111110 10110101 1101111 11011111 11111001 10111000010 110110111 11111100 11101101 10111011 11110111 111101100 1101101 11001101001 100011111 1101011011 111111100 110011011 1011110100 111110011 111011100 111111110 11011101 1111100 11101111 110110101 1 101 1011111 101110110 110010011 1111111010 10111010 101110101 11101 1010110110 100111110011 10111101 10100101 1011110010 101111010 1011111 101111001 111101 101011101 101101001 1011111000 10111101 1111110000 1011001011 1011111011 1111011111 11111 111111 1001011010 1011111111 10100111 01111111 1110011100 111100111 1001111 10101 10111011 110111011 101101111 101101011 1101110110 1011110001 11011101011 11110111 11101 11101001 1101111 1111011101 11011011 101110001 111100111 10101011010 100101000 111111 1110110110 101111101 11110011 11011101 11110101 10011001 1111111 100111110 110000 110101111 111101111 110100101 111011000 11111111 11011101001 1001011110 1011111111 101001 11000110 1 101 011111 101100 1011101 01101010 10101100 00101101 111011 11111 1011111 011110 01111 1010011 1000100 111101 111011 110111 100111 111101 101011 11111 111101 100111 1110101 100010 1011101 11111 1111101 101011 1001011 10111110 111010100 110110 11101 11011000 0111100 1110101 1101110 101010 1011000 111100 1100110 011011 1010111 1010100 11101100 101101 111011 10111 1111100 111111 101101 10111110 10111010 1111110 1111010 111111 1111110 1110100 11101100 01110 0111101 101101 111101 101010 1010111 1111111 1110101 1110101 1001000 10111000 111111 1111101 10101001 111001 101101 110011 1110111 10101100 10101110 011110 1010110 10110110 11110110 1110111 111110 11011010 101111 1101111 1011110 11111 1110111 1010111 111011 1110111 1011011 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 26
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • 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; nu, og, den, d, var, i, er, det, som, du, dig, v, de, blev, man, har, os, ej, m are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, og, den, dens, om, det, vi, du, man are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines k, gt, d, de, lde, nges are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases lo, k connect the lines.

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