This is an analysis of the poem En Strandvasker that begins with:
Der drev en Person paa Strandbredden op,
Vi saa' ham, han laa med Næbet i Vejret;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX aXXX XaXa XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001 1111111110 11101111 11000111 1100111101 1011010110 1111101 110001100 110111101 110011101 1101101101 1111111 110111101 110111110 11101001 0111010 1101101010 11110110110 111110000 1111010 1101111001 1101101110 111111011 110110110 11001011011 11011011110 1100101101 110010110 01111101 1111111000 1111001101 110011110 1111111101 1111111110 111101101 11111 111111111 110110111 10111111 11111111 1111111011 111111110 1101111111 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; jeg, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same words jeg, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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