This is an analysis of the poem Engelske Socialister that begins with:

Henover Byens Tage glide
De sidste Smil, de hendøende Rester...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaaXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXbbXX cXcXdXXX XbXXaadX XbXXXXdX XXXXXXXX XXXbXXXX XXXXaaXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100111 01101010 1101101101 1110101 11100111101 11011011 1110101101 110101101 1111011110 10110101 101010110 110100110 101101110 10111010 101111010 100001101010 01111110 111101010 101011111110 111011110110 11101011010 101110110 10101110011 1101111101 11011101 10111111 1101111001 110110111 10001011110 11011000 1111011010 11110101 1110111 1101011110 111111011 11101011011 111111101 11110101 1111111110 111011110 111111101 111111010 11001111 1101110 011111010 0010110110 11011110110 1101011000 1111011011 1111011000 111111111 1111010101 10111011111 111111101 10101011001 1111111101 1011101110 11010111 11111100 11111111110 1011111110 1101011000 111101110 1110110100 10111111111 1111011011 11111111 11111111 1111101111 101111111 11111111100 1111011100 1111111 1101111011 111111 1011111 01111111010 10111110 111111000 110101100 110111010 1101011010 110111 11101110 101101100 10111100 1111101 0110010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; paa, den, i, det, vi, og, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, for, vi, han are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mmen is repeated).

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