This is an analysis of the poem Fuglen that begins with:

Fornemmer Du, at jeg mig nærmer Dig?
Og at mit Legem, som min Siæl,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXaaaXaXXXX XcddXeXfXXXXgXXagXXeeX XXgXXXgaXXXXXXXXcXXXXXeX aXXa hbXhXXXXXeXXbXXXeeXX XXXXXXXddXcXXXXX ccXbXXXXXXXXXXgcXdXXXDdXiXXXXXX XXXgXXXXXXXXXXiiXXijjXXXXddgXD cXXXXffXXXkXX XXXXXXXgXccXfXXeX XXeXXXXgXXXXdX XXhXXkXfXXXXX XXllXdXXXXXXdd XXXXXfXXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,22,24,4,20,16,31,30,13,17,14,13,14,13,2,20,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100011111 1111110111 110010101 1101111101 110111011 10110101 11010101 11011111 11000111 1101111 11111110 1101111111 110000110 111010101 1001110110 11010011 1100110101 011101111 1111010001 1101110011 1011011101 10111011101 1111101010 0101111 1101010100 1101010110 11010111 11011010 110001110 110101011 1000110111 111110101 11111101 111101111 11110101 0101111 11111110 110 1111 11001000 1111110 1100011110 110110111 1101 11000101 10010 11101111 1100001010 11001100110 11110111 1010111110 1100111 110101111 111110101 11111111 11111111 11110110010 11101110 110010011 11111100 10111001 1101101111010 1110111 1111110001 111101111010 11101111 1011100 11101110 1101111 11000111 111101011 1111110111 1110111110 110011111 1100011 1001010111 1101 11011101 11 11111100 101110111 11111111 11111111 111110111 111101111 10101101 1101011110 111110111 11011011011010 101111011 10001110011000 11100101 1101110101 1000 111100111 1111100011 1101110111 1110 1101111 11111 110111 1111 1111011111010 1100011110 11100101 1111110101 11110111 11101111111 11110111 1111 1101 1111 1101 111 110001111 110101111 111110110 11111101 11011100 110111011 1110010 11 110111110101 11000 1110010101101 010001011100 0100010110 1101100111 1111010100 11010111000 110110010100 1111111000 101101000 1101100111 110111 11100100 1111001000 111111101 110111101 10111111 11101001 11110111111 11111111100 101100011 10111110 111110101 11100111111 110111001 101110111 11101111 110101011 111111001 110101111 111111100 1101110100 11111111 1111101 1101 1111 01111011100 11 100100110 1100100 10011100 11111110 11111 101 101 1010 11110010 1101101 1110 1100011 1010 10111100 110001011 111000111 111110111 111111101 11011101010 110110010 11011111 11001100 110011011 100101111 110110100 111111011 1111111111 111110100 1011101101 110001101 11111010 1111110 1111001 1111010 10011100 1111100 111101 11110111 10011101 1111100 1110110 1110011 10010001 111100 10111011 011111 1101110 11010111 1111101 11110100 11111110 1111101 1010 1011011 110 11011101 10100 100111110 1101111010 11010011 1110111 111110100 1011010101 1001111 11100100 1111001001 1111111001 111101110 101110100 1101010101 11 111000110 11111 11111101 1111110 1101111 1101101 1010 011110 1010 1101100 1111 111110 11100 1110111 1110111010 100111101 110111010 10111110111 100111001 1111111101 1111011111010 11110011 10111101100 1111111 1100 111111110 11111101 10110111 11101111110 11010111101 11111111000 1101111101110 11010111 1001001 10111011 10111101 11010111 1011010001 11101110110 1111101 10101111 11111110 10011101010 111010001 1100111 0111011 101111011 11100100 1111111101 1111110110 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 283
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, deres, h, hvad, jeg, af, saa, meer, som, du, naar, i, hende, til, med, maaskee are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, fra, hvis, som, i, naar, maaskee are repeated.

    The author used the same word ja 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 ret, k, vi, m are repeated).

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  • summary of Fuglen;
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  • history of its creation;
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