This is an analysis of the poem Jordens Kiærlighedshistorie that begins with:

Ung og skiøn, med yndig Blomsterpragt
Smilende, som efter Almagtslivet,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXX XbXXX XcXXXXXXXXXbdXXXXXXXXeXXbXXXXXXXcXaXXXXXX XXXeXXfXXXXXdXXdX XXXXXXbXXXXXggXgXX XdXXXXbXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXddXXbXXXXXXddXXX XXXXXhhaiiXXj XXXXXXbXXXiXXiXXXXXkXXXhhXXXX XaXXlXXkXkXXcXXXXhXXhfXXXXXXXmXmX XXXjXXXXXXXXX XXXbXXXbXbkXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,41,17,18,11,13,22,13,29,33,13,18,31,19,47,18,33,36,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110100 101101000 1111111110 111011 10110110 1110101010 11 11101001 10111110 11111 101101 111 11100001 101111 1011 1111000 111111011 101010110 110010101 1111 1010 110011100 111 1111110 1110001 10111 1011111111 1110011 1110100110 110101010 101111 111010111 111000110 1111001 111111 111 11110110 111011 1000 11000110 1111111 1111101 1111100 101110 11001110 110011101 1110100 101010110 101100111 11100010 11101010 110 11001001 1111101 10 10111001 1110001 111 11100011 111100 101 101 1110010 111 111011110 11 10101111 1100010 11 1111001 1111101 111 11110110 1100100 111100 111110111 111 1111101 1111001 100 11101111 111 111111100 1011101 111011 101111111 1111111 100101 101111 111101 1110110 10111101 11111010 111011111 101001 111010101 1011101110 11110110 1111101 111111 10011110 110101 11111110 111 11111011 111011 1011100 10001111 111110 10101010 111101 11111101 1110011 101010111 1111011 1110101 111 11100111 111 1110101 11111110 101111 111100110 1110 100 111111 11110111 10111111 111011110 111010110 111 11111010 111111 11111 10110011 11110101 1110101 111011 11110111 11001010 11111 11100111 1110100 1110111 111110001 1110101110 11111101 111011101 111001 11101111 11101 11111101 1111 111110111 11011111 100 101101111 111111 1111 11111111 11111111 111111 110 110111001 1111111 1110101 110010111 1111111 1110 101111110 1110101 1101111 111110 1110 10110011 11101111 11101100 111011010 1111101 110111 11111110 111 1110111 11111 10110011 1011011 111001 00111101 1000111 1110111 11 111010111 1111 1111001 11 111101110 1000111100 111111 111010011 11010101 110011011 101011101 101110 1110110 110100100 11111101 11011100 110000101 11011010 1010110 11101 10000110 1111001 111 11100111 111011110 111 101 1111111 10011001 101 11111011 110110111 111 11101111 11 11111011 11101110 1110 11111101 101111 1110111 11101111 11 11101111 111 1110101 1110110111 11101111 11101101 1 1110111000 101111 1110 11111 111101 1100111 11111 101110101 111110110 101110 101011 111111110 11011 111111111 111 111 1011101 11111110 11101111 1100100010 1111111 111111110 111110111 10111110 1011111 111110101 1100110 111101 111110111 11111111 111100100 11111110 11 1111011 11101110 1010101 101100 101100 1011111 111111100 11010100 101100000 11111101 101111110 1110001110 101111 11111111 11110111 11111 1010011 11111 111110111 1111 11111010 111 101111000 111011 11111111 1111101 1111010 10001111 1111111000 1111001100 111111 111010111 1010101 111101 1110111 101010110 111110 101111 101011100 1101111 11111 1111101 101101111 11111011 111111 11111111 111101 101111100 11100010 10111 101110111 10111001 11100 01111001 1110111 10110010 10111110 111110111 1001101 111110111 101110011 111111111 111000101 10111111 111101 111100111 1001111010 11111111 111111101 11101011 1110100 1001 111111 011010101 101011110 101011111 10011111 11111100 111111110 111111100 1110110 101111100 11110010 111110 10100010 110 101111101 1111110 1110110 111 110 11001011 111111 1111111 111111111 111011111 11110111 101010111 110001101 0 11111111 01101100 10111110 101110 111 1011111 11111110 10111101 1111 111 1111011 111000111 1111000 1110111 110100111 11000111 01011101 1010111 101111110 11111011 1110111 101101 1011001110 11101011 1111111100 101011110 1011111 111011 1110111 111 111111 10111111 10110111 101010111 111101110 0110 111111101 01111111 11101111000 111110110 1110101110 11110000 1011111 101111 1101111 1111101 111110 1111010 111011 0111111 110110110 10110 11100011 11100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 683
  • Average number of words per stanza: 131
  • Amount of lines: 428
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; og, den, af, som, n, i, hop, til, hendes, de, mig, jeg, elskov, det, er, han, hun are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words neppe, i, deels, hendes, nei, hun, at are repeated.

    The author used the same word da 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 n, ben, st, rte, ringer, de, gtig are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase elskov connects the lines.

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  • summary of Jordens Kiærlighedshistorie;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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