This is an analysis of the poem Med Høj Horisont that begins with:

Saa tog da den jublende Dag Reisauss
Med alle de glade Svende;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbXbc XXbXbdXXbX eXXXXeXXXX XXdXXXXXX XXXXXaXXa XXXXXXXX fXfXggeeXX fXfXhXXXXX XhXXggXfXX XXXeiiXXXX aXXXXdXX jXXXbjXX XjXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXgXXcXX XXgXXXXXa aaXXXXXXa XakXjjXda XXaXXXXgX fXXXXkXXXXXX akaXXXXXXXXk bXbbX XXXXX aXXXX XXXcX XXab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,9,9,8,10,10,10,10,8,8,8,8,8,8,9,9,9,9,12,12,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110110 11011 1111110 1110111 11111111 111011100 11011011 11011010 1101101 11011001 1111111000 11111010 101100011 1111111110 1111101 11011011001 1111111 1101011 1101011 1110110 1111011011 11111 1111111010 110011111 1110101 101101001 101100 1010101 1101001 1011101 111111001 11101111 101101111 1110011 1111111 11011100 110111101 1111110111 1011110 110010111 111101010 11111001011 101101 10011100 1100111 10011110 1010111 1000101 1110111010 101010 11011011010 1101010000 11111101 10111011 01111101 110101101 10110101 110110111 1111011 111111 101101111 1011101 1111 1101 10011001 1001110 10110101 11010111 10111111 110111 1111111 101111101 1101 11111 10011001 11001011 1100101101 1111111011 11111101 110110 1010111 1011101 11000 1111 1011011001 1111110 11111101 11110111 1111111 111101 111011001 01111101 1101 1101 10101101 1011111 11011 1101 110110 1000 10110 1110 11000 11 110110 11000 1011 1010 1011 1110 100 1010 1110 111010 110 1100 10110 1101 11010 1000 11110 11010 1011 110110 1000 110110 1110 1011 11110 1111 1110 1111 110000 1000 11011 11011 111110 1101 11011 1111 1110 10110 110100 10110 1111110 10111010 1101 11011 111111111 11111111111 111101011 110100111 110011 11110111 0111111 1111 1101 1101011 110101101 11010111 110111110 111111 111011011 11011111 11011 10011 110111110 11101110 111001100 11011111 011101 110101101 110111111 11011 11110 111111110 1111110110 1101101101 1011110111 1101111 11111101 11001011 111 1111 11011111 11100111 1010110110 101000101 1011010011 111111110 11110010101 10111101 111111111 1111111 1111 1001 1111111111 11001101 100111010 101111110 011111011 111011101 11010111 1111011 11110111 1111010 110110111 11011101 11011110 110111111 11011010 10101111 1111101 1111110 110110101 1110110 1011011111 1011011011 11010110 1101101001 1101011 11011101 111111101 10101001 1111111011 11000110 11011101 11011101 11101110 1111111 10111 110110001 110111111 101011 11110101 11111010 110011111 1101011011 110110110 110101111 11111001 10010111 10111111 011110 11110111 1111 1101101111 111111 11111 010111110 011101101 11111110 11100110 1110111 111111111 101101011 1111011 11110 110111101 111100100 111110 111101100 1011101111 110110110 111111110 1011011110 1111111011 10101011011 11111011 11100 11011011111 11100010 1101011 111110101 111111001 10001010 1101101 111111101 111111111 111001111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 281
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; den, jeg, en, du, skal, er, i, og, vi, saa, det, som, et, til, v are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, hvi, og, med, det, jeg, som, et, da, de are repeated.

    The author used the same words som, det, ja, jeg, saa, et 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 rt, flag, lger, b, k are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase t connects the lines.

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