This is an analysis of the poem Ved Frederik Den Sjettes Død that begins with:
En Sfinx med Fingeren paa sin Mund,
i Dæmringen Fremtiden ruger,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbb XXcXddXb XaeXXXbX XXXXXXXX XXcXXXbb cacXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXeXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111 11010010 110001100 1110100 1100101010 10011110 11000110 10011010 1111110 1101110 11010111 1000110 11010111 1011101 11000010 01000110 11011101 111110 111101101 11001010 11011101 110110100 1101101 1101010 01011001 1100011 1111101 111110 110101101 1111110 01001110 1110110 0111100 11011 1101111 110111 111111101 1111101 1111001 1010101 11011111 0111010 100011101 1100011 11111110 110101101 110011 111101 0111111 1101101 1111101 110011 11011110 01111111 11101 1111110 1101111 0110110 11000111 1111000 110111101 110011101 101101 1101010 110111101 1111110 10111111110 111111100 110111011 0110010 110101 110101 101101101 110111100 111101011 1111001 0111101 11000010 01110100 110001100 111010110 11011 1110111 111011 110101111 11100101 1101010 1100110 111111111 110111 1111100 110101 1111110010 111001111 110101 110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; de, d, paa, har, og, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, i are repeated.
The author used the same words de, ja 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 d, r, lde are repeated).
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