This is an analysis of the poem Fjerde Sang that begins with:

Mens Vintrens seirende Tyran
Paa Livets blegnende Ruiner...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXX cXdXXXXXacXX XXXXXXeX XXXXdXdb XXfaXXXd XXXXXXXX XXXXXfXXXXca XXXgXXXXXfcfXhXh XcXXXXdb cXcXXXXXXXXXXXXf XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bffbaXiXXXXXdXeXXXXXXXXXfXbXbcXcXXXXXiXXcXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXf XdXcXXXX caXXXeXe fXXXXXXXiXXbXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXf XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,12,8,8,8,8,12,16,8,16,8,8,46,8,12,8,8,16,12,12,12,4,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 1101010 11111111 111110010 11101 1100111 10010111 11011101 1111010 1101001 111111 1111111 110110111 11101000 1101101 110111010 1101111 10111110 11011000 1011000 111011 1100010 11011101 1111010 1111011 1100110 1110011 1111101 11011110 1110011 101111000 11111100 1101111 11010100 1111101 1111111 11100110 111100 111111 1110011 111111110 11011111 110111100 11011101 10001101 1001011 1111001 10001101 1111111 1001010 1001111 11010110 110010010 1110101 111101010 101111 1101010110 111111 111101110 1110110 100101010 11011100 110111010 11110101 101101 11001101 111101 111111 01011101 11011110 1111111 11010110 1111100 1101111 11011010 1111111 1100111 1001111 1111011 1111111 10011101 1100110 1111111 1100101 10000100 111111 11110111 1111101 1101110 111100 11110010 1111001 10011101 0111111 11110111 1101101 1101110 111111 1101111 110101 01011 11110111 11010111 111101 001100111 100111 11011101 1111011 1111011 111101 110110 1101111 11001110 1110001 1101111010 0100111 01011001 110111010 10010100 111001 11111 11010111 1101101 11111 11111101 11001010 110101010 10010101 11011100 111010 1101101 11110110 1111111 1110 11111 1111111 11111111110 11011101 110111 11001111 111111111 11011101 11111111 111111 111111 1110111 1111111 1100111 11010011 101111010 111110 110010010 10010110 110111010 11111100 11010 1110 11011101 11101110 1111001 1111110 11011111 11011101 1111100 111011 1111101 10111101 11011101 11111111 10011101 11111010 1101010 110110100 1110110 1101111 11011101 0100101 11010111 11100100 111101 11011010 11010011 110111100 11010101 11000110 110001011 110011010 1110011 111101010 11101110 10010100 0101111 111111 11111110 110111110 111011 110010010 1101100 110111 11011101 111110 1111101 11110110 1111011 110100100 10011001 11110111 11011001 1111011 11010111 01011001 1111001 1101011 110111 111111100 0100011 11001101 1111011 11011101 1101001 1110111 11110110 11111100 110010 1011110 11010010 110111110 11011101 1101110 111111 1011110100 11010111 10110010 11001111 11110111 101011 1101111 111111 11011101 11011101 01110101 111111100 1111111111110 01111011 1111101 11110111 1101111 1101011 1100111100 11101111 1101110 11011101 1111001 111111 1110011 111111011 1110010 11010011 11010110 1101011 111010 110011 10101110 1101001 11111010 111111 11001010 1111011 110101110 11110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 270
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • 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, hans, at, d, er, min, for, i, h are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, i, han, og, hver, den, o are repeated.

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