Jens Napoleon by Jens Baggesen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jens Napoleon that begins with:

At Skrædder i Korsøer et Skrædder-Embryon
Har ladet døbe: Jens Napoleon,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXXbXbc XXXXXXXdaXeafXXfXXXXXXXgXgX XXXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXfXXXXXXaXXXXXddXXXXXXXeeXXijcXXXXXdXfXiXaXXXXiXXXjfX XXeXXXXXXXXiiXiXXX XXXXXXfccXXXcXhXkXXXkXXXlclXXXXXXXXXcXhhXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,27,77,18,63,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101110 110110100 1111111110 1100001 1001110001 1101100 100101101110 1111110 1111111 11011111010 1111110111 111111111 1111111100 1101011110100 111111111 110000 11101000010 111111110101010 1111110111 11111111 0111111110 1101001000 110101111111 111100110 11111110110 110101011 111111011110 1001101111010 1111010 110111110 10100001001 111101110010 110010011 101110111 110111110 11100011011 10011111111 111111100001 11010 11110110100 111101110111 1110110010 110101011 111110101 1111110101 11001100 1001100001 11100100 111111010 111100110000 11001110010 110011110 1111110100 1111111110 111100111100 111010010 1100010 1101111000 111011101 11110111 11001110 1110011111 1111111000 111100111100 1110001100 1101111 11100111011 110100111 0110111 1111110111 11011111 1100011101 11110100110 110110111 1111101 1111110100 11111111 111101111 111111001 111111100 111010110 1110100111 111111000 110111110 1110010110 1111111110 11110001 1111001 111101111 1111110101 11111111 1111111111 1100110111 1101111110011 111111011 1101110111 1011101100 10011011111 1110111 101111110 100111110 1111111100 110011101 110010010 111111111 1111110110 11110110 111001 1100011100 110101011 110111110 11011101 11110101100 111 1110110010 111100111 1101010111 11001110 101100 11101110010 11100100001 11111110101 1111010100 111010110 111111111 11 1011000110 1111011 111101 110111011 10110101111 0101001011 111110010 110100111100 100111110111 11111010 11010111110 111110110 11111 111001001 11110110 1100110101 1111111111 1100111101 11101110100 110011111101 10001001 11100111 1110011 111111111 11010111111 01111110 111001111 110111001 1110111 1111011111 1111110111 11111111 1100011101 10111111 111110111 11111111 111111011 110100111 110100011 1111011000 111010001 110010110 11001011 11001011011 110111011 110111110 1011111101 011110011 101111011 1111111011 111111110 11001111111110010 0111100 1111111110 11101101 11111101 111100011101 110111110100 11011011 11011101110 11000111110 10111000 1110011011010 11111110010 111001 1110111 110111111 111111100 1100101 11111111 100110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1515
  • Average number of words per stanza: 294
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; og, at, gge, han, lidt, re, til, i, er, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gge, n, be, re, er, nner, de are repeated).

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