This is an analysis of the poem Begyndelsen that begins with:
Jeg Alderdommens Sphinx, som her paa Dansk fremtriner,
Med gordisk knyttet Haand, paa alexandrisk Fod,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXc XdXd XXdc XXXX XXXe fXfg XXXX XfaX XXXX hXXX XXaX XXXi bXXi XXXg XXXX XXXX XXXX fXfX abXX XXXX XXXa XXXd aXXX XdXX Xdad XXXX XgXg XXXX acac XXXX fXfX fXXX XdXX bbbb XXXb bXbX XXXX XXXX XcXc XXXX XXaj XjXX XXXg XjXj XfXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100011011100 110101110001 10011111010 111111111111 110111101000 100100110100 111011101000 010111111 1100111101110 11101011101 111101100010 01111111100 11101111101 11101111001 11101111111 1111111101 11111111111 111101011 11011110111 110101111110 111011111110 111001111010 111110100100 101111111111 1111111110 1111011111 11111110100010 11111111101 110101111000 11001100110 111111111111 11111110101 111101101111 110111011110 110101110101 11101110110 11011101110 1111110101 111101011101 1111111011 101110111110 111111110110 1111111101110 11110111111 111101101111 111111101 1110011111111 1111111001 1111111111 1110111011 11111101110 11101111111 1110111111 110111111101 1111111010 1110111001 1101111111 11001101101 11010011111 11111011111 110101111100 11101001 1111111001110 11011011110 1111011101110 11111100111 11111001010 1111101111 111111101101 1101111111 1010110010 1011111111 11110011111 101111111101 111101111110 11110111111 1010011111110 11011111001 111110101010 111110101100 101001111100 111110110111 111111111 111011110 101001111110 111111110000 111101111010 11001011111 1001011110110 111111110111 11111111111110 11110111111 1001011111110 11010011011 1101101011010 11110101101 101001101111 11111110111 1101001111111 100110111110 101111110111 111111111111 101000111111 110111101010 110101101010 110111111100 11111111110 101110111001 11100011110 111001011111 111101110000 11011011110 11100010111 11011110011 11111011001 101101111001 110101011110 101101011101 1100111010110 110111101111 11100111111 1111111100110 1110111111 11000110101 11111110011 100101110010 111101110100 11010111111 101100101100 1111111110 110111110011 110101110111 1100101110010 0111111111 11111110111110 11111111111 110111111001 11111111100 110001110111 11010011110 1011111101110 110111110110 1111011101110 01011110111 110111001110 111110111 1110111101010 11110111111 11110111111 11111110101 1111111100110 110111110100 1111111011 1011111111 110010110001 11111110111 11110011110 11010111111 111100111101 11111110011 11110110011 111101110001 1101011011 111100110111 110000100011 110010110010 11111111101 111001101111 11111010111 1111101010 11011111111 110101111110 11111100100 1111111110 111000110000 111111111101 1110011111000 1111101101111 1101001111110 110101110100 101111111100 11110111111 110011110010 110001111101 11111111111 1101111001 110001110001 1011011100 1101011111 1111111111 1001011111 110100110111 110111101010 111101100101 10100111010 11010111101 1111111111 1110111001 111101110001 101101111100 100011111110 111101110101 11001111110 111111011 110101110111 11110111 11110111011 110101011100 111111011111 110111110101 1100111001 11111011111 11010111101 11111111000 111101111111 11001110000 110101111110 1101110001 1100011001000 1111011111 101111101101 11111110111 11011110101 11110010111 1101111101011 111101110111 1101111111 11111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 57
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 228
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, jeg, og, man, n, troer, trods, paa, om, at, er, hvad, i, af, den, jo, du, fra, til, see, en, saa, med, hin, s, t, dig, din are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, at, af, see, en, s are repeated.
The author used the same words jeg, hvordan, hvorledes, min, see, sku at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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