This is an analysis of the poem Den Farende Svend that begins with:
Frejdig flyver den unge Fugl;
Hvorfor stække dens Fjedre?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXb XXXXXXXX XaXXcXcX XXXXXXXX XXbdcXXd XXXXXXXX XXXbXXXX XcXXXcXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 10111 1010110 110101 10011101 1111001 1111101111 1101111 110101111 111111 111110 110101 10011 110111 111010 1111 111111 111110 111010 1101 110110 1111 11110 111 11111 11001 11111 11110 110110 110010 11110 1000 110110 11010 11010 11110 110110 110110 111111 1101 11001 1001 100110 11011 110110 111100 1110 11111 10010 10010 11111111 0111 110110 11110 11110 11011 111110 111110 110110 11111 111110 11111 110011 1011 11010 11111 11111 11111 10011 110111 111010 1111 11011 111110 111010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 179
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words min, den, med are repeated.
The author used the same word i 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 verden is repeated).
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