This is an analysis of the poem Hesten Abildgraa that begins with:

Min vakkre Nathanson, der (som jeg troer,
Paa Grund af allehaande Spor...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaaXXXbXaXXXXXcddcXXXXXXXXaeXaXXXXXXXXXXfXXfcXgXXXXXXXXhXXddXXXX XXXXXggXXXXcXXeXXiXXiaeaeaedXXXdXdXXXXXXXb dXdXXbXXXXXjXXXXXXgXXXXXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXddXkkXXXXXX XaXXXXXgXXdjXXX XXXXllXXhXXXjXXXXXXXiXXmXXXXaXm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,42,65,15,31,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001111 1111001 1100101110 111111110 110101111 011101110 1001011110 1110101 110011111111 1100111110 11011111111 11001110101 1101111 111100111 1111111101 11111110 1111011 11110110 11111011 110111110 11001101110 111001111111 111010 10111110111 1011110111 011111 10 1001101101 1001010100 11010101 1101111101110 1111010101 110100 11010010 11100110111 1111110011 110111111 11110111001 01100101 111010011 110101110100 111001101 1100110111 1111010101 1111110011 11111111 110110101111 10111111 1111010101111 111011100 111111010110 111111110001 1111001111 1110001 11001011 110111101 111111111 1111111100110 11001111100 11111111111 11110111001010 1111 1101010 111111111010 110011011 1111011101010 11100101110 11110111 011101111 1111111011 11101010 11011101 1001110100 1000110111 1111111111 11111101100 100101011 1111100 1111110010 110101111 11110111111 1101111111 110111011 111101001 11 11111001 11011111110 10110001100 111010 11010111110 01100011 1101110 11011111 11010100010 11101101 10111111010 10110001 1111100010 111111 10110101010 111111 111111110 1011011101 1100011111 011111 1111111000 1011111111 101101101 11110111111 01011111 111111100110 10001010 110100111010 01010111011 11011001110 111111111 1111111011000 11111101110 10 11111111111101 10001111010 11111101 1101010100 1111101011 10010111111 11110101 1111111000 11110111100 10110110 11011111110 100111111110 110001110 1100010011 1101100000 1100000110 1111000110 111011110 110011101 10101111 1011011111 11111101010 100110111 1101101110 11000111111 110101110 1101011101 1111111 110010010 1111011111 1111100011 11111110010 110000101 11011111 111110000 100011000 11110100 1111101110 11111101 111101110 111010111111 1011011110 111111 1111100 110111001 111111010 101101111000 111 11111111 1100110111 111110111 1111010101 1100011 10010011 111111 111111 11100111 1111011 01111010 111111111011 1100100 11111111100 11111100010 1100110100 1100001101 1111111 1101101111010 11011011011 1111111110111 110111011 111100100 11101111100 1011101101 111111111 100101010100 101110111 111000101 11001010 1100100100 1110011111 11101110 0110011 11110101 111110111 1100011 101001 1110111 10111101110 11111111 111111001 1011100100 1100010 1110101000 1001110110 1101110100 1001100 11111110100 010110110 111110110 1111101111 1111011101100 111110111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1670
  • Average number of words per stanza: 321
  • Amount of lines: 221
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; som, og, en, i, saa, det, der, du, jeg, dig, den, han, med, ei are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words forhaling, jeg, mit, istemmer, der, at, 'hvis, en, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ngsel, sens, sen, nker, rdigt are repeated).

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