This is an analysis of the poem Til Kong Frederik Den Syvende that begins with:

Du Drot, som nu throner i høje Sale,
man siger, Du ynder den djærve Tale,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXX cXXXbbXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXdXXXXXbbeXXXcX bXXXXfXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXX XXXXXXggXaXX XXddXXXXXXXa XXXXfXXXXXXXdd XXXgXXXXXXXXff XXXXXXbX XXXXXccXXXXXhhXXhh XXXaXXXcXXXXcceX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,11,12,20,22,12,12,14,14,8,18,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011110111 110010111 11011111001 01110111 11101010 11101010110 110011111 1101101110 1111011010 1111011010 01111110 111100011 1101111111 110111111 11010111 1111111 11011101 11101101 1101111110 111110101 1101111101 111111100 111110001 1111110 1011111 010111100 110101001 1110011 11010111 1111011000 1111011110 1101101101 1110100111 111011100 0111101010 110111110 110111110 11110111 01010101 01100111 10110101 11000101 11111111 1111101111 1101111001 1111011010 11001101 11011111 110110111 11011111 111111100 11111101 110111101 1101101101 1100110101 1111001000 100110100 111111101 101101 11101010 11110111 1111111010 1111111 110101101 111101110 11011101 110011100 111011110 11111110 11111110 10101111 11011111 111110001 111111010 110111111 1111110 11111001 1101101 11110100 11110011 1101011001 111111110 11110001 11011011 11011101 1111101101 10010011 1111011110 11010001010 111111 11110100 1101110010 110110010 11001111 11001101 11111110010 111101110 11111010 110011100 11011111 110111101 11101101 110111101 1101111000 1111110100 111101101 1101111111 111111101 10111111 1111101 110111111 110111111 11101111 1101110 111100101 1111111 10010110 11101110 11011000 111110101 11011111 111101010 10111110 1101011001 1111101101 110111110 1100011000 110111010 110110101 1101101101 1101101101 100111101 0111111 1101100101 11111111 11111111 1011010 110100111 1111111101 1111111110 1110111110 111001100 11001011 110011101 1111000101 111100111 11111100 110111010 11011011 11011101 110101110 11101011000 1101011110 1111111111 01111111 1101110 111100101 101101100 1101101101 1111110 11111010 011101100 111110100 011111110 1111011010 1101111 1010101111 111111101 101110101 110111000 10101100100 111111000 1100011110 1101111 1111100101 11011111 11111011 1100111110 110111001 11111111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 554
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 181
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, re, til, m, den, det, og, skal, i, dig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words man, og, til, de, den, han, det, hav, saa, da are repeated.

    The author used the same word men at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, d, m, nder, gt, le, rk, rd, nger, nge, kke, n are repeated).

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