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

Lang er den Herre af Lemmer,
Kæmpevoksen og bred;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXcXc cXXdXXXc XXXXXXXX XdXdXcXc X eXccXXe X XXXXfXffXX cacXdXXeXX gXXXhhXiiX XXXXXXXbXX X XgXcXXXXXX X XXXXX XXXXX iXiXXXXaX XXXXXXXXXaX XXXXXXcXeXXXXXXaX XXXXXXbXXXec X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,1,7,1,10,10,10,10,1,10,1,5,5,9,11,17,12,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110110 10011 11110110 101101 110110110 1111 1010110 110110 11010110 111100 0100110 101101 0111110 1101100 101011 11010110 1101110 111110 010111 1101101 11011111 101111 1111111 1110 11010110 1101011 011011 111111 0101111 111111 110110 1101110 1 10010100101001 101100111011 10011110 1010110 1010101 100100 10010100101001 101111 11101011000 101110 110101010 110011 1100111101 111101 110111101 11011111 11011010 110101 11111011010 111110 1011011010 110110010 110111011 1101100010 111100 111110011 110000111 100100 11101011011 111111 1101101101 110101 1100101101 11101011001 1111110 111111001 11011110110 1101110 1101101110 11011001 110111111 1100111 111100111 1111001 11001101010 110100001 1111011 1101110 11 1100110 1111 110 1101010 11001101 1101111 11011110 11011101 111101 1011000 1000 110111111 110111101 10100001 11110111 111000 1100111 11011010 111011100 1110111110 11111010 111101110 11110110110 1101111101 11110010100 11011010 10100001 1011111011 100100110 11011 111111111010 11110111110 11010110 1010011 1111011111 11001011001 01111110 11011011110 1100110100 11001010 1110100 1111101110 110111101 101011110 111101101 110111111 11011110011 11011011110 110110100110 11011011111 1111 11010111100 101111010 11111110 110100 100 110110110 1111000 111111100 11011111 11111000 111111 11111011 11101101 111101101 1101110 11111101 11110011101 111101101 1101111 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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, og, d, til, h are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word og 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 rk, se, t are repeated).

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

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