This is an analysis of the poem Elleskovs Mysterier that begins with:

Til Fru Conferentsraadinde Brun
Med en Afskrift af de følgende Breve...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXXXbcX XXXXXX XXXXXXXaXXXXdXeeX XXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXfXgXgXgaXcXXXXXXXXgXXXX XdXadXXXXXXXXXfhXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXX bXXaXXaciciXiXiXXXXXXXdhXXXgXdXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,17,41,34,60,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100001 11101011 1001111 101011111 11100001 10111011 100010101 101110101 10000100 10111101 1101000 101101010 1011011 1110111110 11101011 111011111 1101111100 1011110 1011011 11111100 10001010 11111100 1011111 10111111 111010101 101111110 1011011 1110101010 1101001 101010110 101011101 1010101110 111000010 1101111 1110111 10111001 10010011 1111010 10001111 10110001 1101001 100111 100011101 1110111 1011011 111111101 1111111 111111 110000100 11101000 11110111 1101101 1111110 110111 111111001 111001001 1110101111 10111111 1110111 1111110 10011011 111111001 1111111 10011111 111010100 1111111010 1011010 1011111 111000100 11101101 11111111 110001111 11111010010 111110011100 11110111 111110110 1001110 11001010 10110101 1101001 110111111 11111111 111111110 1101011111 1111110 111011011 10111000 10100110 11111101 111100111 1110 11111001 1110 11110101 1111101111 11011001 11001100 11001000 1110011 110110 1111111 1110 1110101110 100 1001111 1011100 111110111 111101 1111100 1000111 11101011 11 111 1110111 1010101 101011 1111011111 1011101010 1111010 111001 1011110 110011 1011010 1011101 1011101 1000101 100011 1000001 110111 111010 11110010 111010101 11001011 101111111 111110111 1110101 100110101 111001000 11101111 10011111 10011101 111001101 11111001 111100 111101 1011101 1111100 101011111 100101101 111101100 1010111 11011110010 1110001 100101000 1011010 10011100 101001 11110100 1111011 11001011 1000101000 111111 1010010000 11111011 11111 110101000 111000101 1111111 1110101100 1011111111 100011101 10111111 1111 101111110 11001110 111010100 11010111 101111100 1110111100 11100100 11000100 11010100 10011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 840
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 183
  • 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; jeg, de, l, i, paa, som, og, putte are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, e, ge, n, ns are repeated).

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