This is an analysis of the poem Anden Afdeling that begins with:

For hver Gang en Højskole rejstes, hver Gang der blev Akademi,
Da var det med Aandernes Fribrev, de frie, de frelse, forbi;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aaXXbX XXXXXX XcXXXX XXXXXd eXXXXX XefXXe X XXfXXaaXfXXXXf XXXXXggXXXXXbXXfbX X XbXXcXXbXXXX XXXXXXXXXXX cXXXXXXhaahXX XXXXXXdXbbXXXXX XXXXXXXcXffXX X XXXXXheX X XXXXXXfXX XXfXXXXf XXXXXXXf XXXXXXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,1,14,18,1,12,11,13,15,13,1,8,1,9,8,8,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111011111000 1111100100100110 110000110 111010 11111 1100101 110111000101101 1101011101011 1100101 1100010 11010110 1001110 111111011101011 100011001000111 11100100 11011001 1111001 111111 11110111111101 1001010111111 111001 11111111 1111011 1111101 10111010111111 10110101100111 110110110 1111111 1000101 1111101 11111111001111 1111111011011111 1111011 11111101 1101001 1111110 110110001111 1100101101101011 111010110 1101011 110010110 11011 1000 011011010 100111001 01111110 10111001 110011100 0101001 111101011 110100100 1111010 111110111 10011011 11110100 1101110 11111010 011101110 111111001 11001111000 111111110 11101101 010111011 11110101 1111110110 1101010011 1000100011000 1000100011000 0110101 111010100 10010111 11111011 11011101 1010010 11010000 101111 10010110 1010 110111 110100 10010111 100110 1111111 1011010 11110100 10101101 10111 1010010 01110110110 1000101100 110111 11111 01110110 101011 101011001 1111011101 10011111 1001010 1111111 1011101 1011010110 101011010 101011000 101101011 1011111011 101101011 011111010 10011101 101001011 10100111 11010101 10011101 10001011 1011001110 10011101 11011010 1001011010 11111100 100011001 100111001 1011101110 111111010 1011011 101011 1111010 111011 0101101 10011101 11101110 10001001 1001100 111111 10111111 1111101 11011101 101101011 10011101 101111010 101001 111101 11 10101001 10110111 1101001001 1101111101 1000111111 110111001 10100010 11010110 100 1111110 11111111 1111011 1010111 1111110 11100010 1110 111 1111111 0011111 1111100 11000010 1010100 1011000 101101 11111010 111111 1011111 1101010 11111000 111101 111111 111101 1111101 11111 1111110 1011110 1101110 110111 10101110 101110 1010 011 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 267
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 188
  • 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; han, er, sit, og, en, i, af, du, d, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, og, en, alma, ensidig, under, folket, lys, aldrig are repeated.

    The author used the same word de 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 m, ve, dem, vet, det are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word den at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Anden Afdeling;
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  • history of its creation;
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