This is an analysis of the poem Første Efterretning Om Kiøbenhavns Bombardering that begins with:
Du, som til Seinens Harpes Klang
Vort Sunds Thermopylæ besang,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXcddXddeXeefXgXXXcXcXXXXXXXhdXXd fXXXhXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXaX ddXXXXXXfX XXibXiXjXXXXXfgXXXXXXXXXXkXX XfjXjjfXcckX jjjjffXXdXXXXXXXXfXXXgfcXlXXXXXhfXXXfXlXXXlXXXfXXdXXjggXaXacclXXXXXfX XmfmXfXX ffXXeeXXXhXhcX llXXXXejeXXXXgkkXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,24,10,28,12,69,8,14,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110101 1110010 110111 1001001 11010011 101100 011101110 11011111 1101111 011001010 111111 1101111 110011110 11110101 100101010 111000110 11111 1111111 111111 11110111 1110111 11010100 110110010 11011000 101101110 11110110 11010101 1110111 1111111 1111011 11110010 11000111 1101101 1101101 1011111 01011111 1011111 11010111 1011101 1011011111 11011111 10111101 1101111 11001100 1101111 11011111 11110110 11011110 11110100 1110101 11011 1111101 1111111 1111111 11111011 11001101 1111101 11010110 111101111 1111011 1101100 1111111 11111101 11011100 1011111 11111111 1111110 10111101 1111001 111111 11001000 111001 11110001 111110 11111111 111111 110111 1100011 111101 1001111 11000101 111111 11001101 1101111 111111 1101111 1111100 11110111 110011 1111011 11110111 10111101 110111 1101111 1101111 0101111 1101111 11011111 1101110 11110 1111111 11010111 111101 11111111 010111 111111 01011100 111101 0111101 11011111 1011111 111101 11011101 111010 11111101 11110111 1101001 11010101 1110001 1101111 10011101 0101101 11011111 100110 11100 10011101 11110111 1101100 11001111 11011111 10011100 1110010 11111111 111111 1100101 1111010 110101111 1110111 10011101 1111011 11111110 11011101 11100111 11010101 10111100 1111011 11010110 111111 10110100 11011 1111101 111111 11001110 11010010 0111101000 1111011 111111 110111111 1001111 1111111 1111111 1110000 1101100 1011111 11011111 111111 11001101 11111001 1111111 11011101 111101 1101011111 1111111 101111 1111001 111111 10110101 1101111 1110011 1111011000 1101111 11111 11100111 110111 1110111 11111111 1001111 111101 1111011 11111 1111111 1111111 10111100 110101010 1111111101 11010110 1101111 110111111 11010111 11100101 11111101 1111110 1011111 1111011100 11110001 1110110 11011111 100011 11111010 11101111 110111010 11011100 11011110 11010 11111111 11011101 11100111 1110011 111110 1111111110 11110010 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 785
- Average number of words per stanza: 152
- Amount of lines: 222
- 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; o, og, de, d, du, den, lidt, paa, jeg, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, vor, og, i, den are repeated.
The author used the same word o 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 ie, re, rt, d are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases du, vi connect the lines.
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