This is an analysis of the poem Den Mistænkelige Tandpine that begins with:

Nu har jeg spiist og slukket Tørsten efter –
Hvorefter troer De? – Viin og Vand maaskee? –...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabcXXdXXXX XXeXXXXaXXXaXXafgfXXXhhX bXbXXaXbXXXXX XXXhXXXXXXXXcXXhXhg XXX XeXiiXXXXXeXXXXeXXXbgXXXXXXXXjXXXXXXXXXXXdXgXeXkaXXkXXeXXXeXXXXeXXXdXbggXXcgegXlXXeXXXXXXlXXXXXXXeXXXXXgXjgXcX XXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,24,13,19,3,110,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110110 100101111 110111011 1101110111 1111111110 10111101 111101111100 110111110 111111101 100110010 1101110010 1110101110 1100100110 11101100 1111110011 11111111 11011101 11110110110 11101111100 111111111 11110110101 1111110 1101000111 101001101 1101110101 11111110 1010000110 11011101 1001110 11010101100 10110 10111 1101000101 11011111 11101111 1100010011 011111111 11110011 111110110 110111111 11111111 10101010 11010101 11011100010 10 11110 0111110 111000111 1110010 01011101 11011011 1001111 110111100 100101011 01111110100 1111010011 1111011001 011101001 11101000 11111111110 11101101 1101101000 1101110101 11001101100 1110010101 11111001 1111010100 11110111 10011010 101011011 10000111010 1101110110 00111111 1101111011 1110110010 11101111 111110101 11110110111 111111101 10100111 11011111111 1101100100 1001111 1101111101 11110111 111000111 1001011110 111011011 1101110111 1100111100 110011111 111111110111 110100111010 11011100 11011111110 1110101110 1001100101 011010011 111000101 1111111 111110100 11111111 111111111 1110111 111011 111111101 1111111111 110101111 1101110110 0100111 111111010101 111111110111 0111010010 11111111 11111111 10001111010 111011010 1111111 1110011111 11011111110 111011101 111111110 10010101110 11110011110 110111101 10111111101 11011111 111111111 1101111101 111010001 110110111 1111100 11100101100 111010111 110101101 11001110111 11111011011111 10111011 10101101 01101111 110111111 11111111110 1110110 11101111000 111001110 11111011100 111100011 11111101010 111111111 11111011110 1110010111 111011101 1101111100 1100100111 11001101 10101111110 11111111110 1101111100 11000111100 111111100 1101111110 11010111 01111111 1011100101 100101001 11111101 0100011100 1100110110000 110111111 111110101 10110111110 11011011111 11010111111 1111111 1111011 10 110001000 11011110101 1100 111111101 1110111 10111101010 1111010 11110111 110110110100 11100011110 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1026
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 187
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, naar, jeg, til, deres, de, fordi, i, du, hvoraf, den, r, f are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, den, 'hun, hvoraf are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ber, d are repeated).

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