This is an analysis of the poem Til Familien I Præstegaarden that begins with:

Her sidder jeg stakkels Spøgefugl
i Stuen nu atter fangen....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaX XbXcbdXXb XXXXXXeXX XXXXXXaXX XfXXXXadXX XXXXXgbgb hXXXXhX XXXXaXXX XXXXXgXgb aXXXXXXif XXXXXXXXX iXXXeXeXXXh XXXXXbXXcXX XXXXdXXdX XXXXXXX XXXiXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,10,9,7,8,9,9,9,11,11,9,7,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011010 1111010 11111101 1111101 101111110 110111111 110101111 11010111 11010110 110101100 1111110 11111110 110111111 1110110 111101111 111111 1110010 1001110 101011101 11001000 110111101 1100110 11110111 111100 1110111 11111100 1111 101111111 1101110 11000110 1101101101 1110100 1111111111 11011011 111101111 1110100 1111101111 1101111 1101111100 11110101 11011 111011 1100110 1111011011 11011101 1110110 11111111 11000110 111101100 11101000 11000100 11111111 111110 110110101 111110 11100001 11010100 110110 1101110 1111110 1110111 1011001 110111011 1101110 11000100 1101100 1101101111 01001101 11001111 11010110 111101101 110110 11001011110 11111111 11001 11011101 110111011 11101111 1100110 111011101 1101010 1101111 111100 11011101 11101 111111001 11111101 11011 1101011 1110110 10011111 011110111 11010110 11001101 11101 11010111 11011 1111011011 110101 1101010 1110101 11011101 11111 11111111 11111 1111111 111101111 110101 1111100 11011111 110001 11011101 11111 1101110 10101100 11000110 11111111 1101101010 110110110 10001111 1100101 110100111 11011 110111101 1100111 11011 11011101 1101010 1110010 11011010 11010101 10011110 11101111 10011111100 0111110 1111111 11110100 11101 11010101 111101 111110111 111101101 1111101110 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, penge, til, en, i, den, mig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, og, til, en, ej, i, jeg are repeated.

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

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