This is an analysis of the poem Foraar I De Euganeiske Bjerge that begins with:

Om nogen vil vide, hvad Foraar er,
Hvad Knopper, som sprænges,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: AXXbXXXacAdXXX XXXXXXeXeXXXfX XXghhXcXcXXbXX bXXiXXXXXbXjjX XXXXiXbXXXXXXX XbXXXXXXXXdXcX cXXkkXgXXcXbbX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXbXbXXXggX XXfXXXXXXXXjd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111100 11011 11011 1100110101 1101111001 110010 1101 11010 11111001 110111100 111111111 1111011011 1011101111 01001 110111110 11011 1111 110011101 11111111010 111 1001 1101 100100111 110111110 110111111 1011110110 110111101 101001 11010110 110110 110110 110111001 1111101101 110100 1111 111110 1101111101 11010110 1111101011 1111111011 111111101 101001 11100011111 1101 1111 1101111010 11110111 11010 1111 110010 111111011 1100011111 11011111 110111101 1111111101 101001 11011011110 11010 11010 1101101111 01010011110 11111 1111 11011 1100111001 01001011110 1111101011 1111111 11101001001 101001 0101101101 11011 1111 11001111001 1101111101 11010 1111 010110 11011011110 1101101101 11011111111 1101101101 11101111110 101001 110011101 1011 11111 10001111011 11011011011 110110 1101 110100 11111011000 11011101 1110111011 1111011001 111111111 101001 11110111 110110 11110 110110111 110110101 11010 1101 101001 110111110 110110111 1101101111 01011011001 11101111111 101001 110101111 01011 11111 1011111011 1101111110 11111 111 11111 11110110101 1100101111 110100011 111101101 11110101101 101001 11011111 1101 10101 11011011010 1110111001 1111 11111 11011 11111111 110101111 1111101 10101111011 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; hvad, hvor, han, og, af, som, med, vi, den are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word om 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 nges, g, kke are repeated).

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

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