This is an analysis of the poem Katten, Eller Elskovs Magt that begins with:

De kiere Katte er' slet ikke mine Folk.
Jeg skyer dem meer end Mørkets Ild-Krabater,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaaXbX XXXXXXaXXXXcc dXdXXXXXcXXXX XbXadX aXefXXXXXXgXXhXXX eXXiXXXXXjXXXXXXhXXfaXXfXXXXXXddkXXk ggXXXXXgXXXlXXXXiXXgXXXXX XfXXXXgXXXXXXXXkiXig XgXXgXXXXXXmXXiXXXXXXXiaXXXagffXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXjXeXXeXXXXggXXXXXX XXXaXXeXbXbXndXnXXXXXXXXXXXXbXaXgabXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,13,13,6,17,36,25,20,67,83,36,29,20,6,48,4,14,8,12,8,6,6,4,4,4,16,4,16,4,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111111 11110111100 1110111000 111101 110110110111 1101111111 1111101100 11111101110 1111 10110111 10110011100 1101110010 10011111 111110111 1011011111 10010110101 1101111011 1101011111 11011011111 11101101111 110101111 10011111011 1011100101 101111010 111101111 101111 111001110 100111111 110111010 111111 1110001001 1101111011 11011111110 11111011 1101111111 1111110010 110111011 110001111 100101011 110110101 1101 100111 11111111 110111111 1100111001 1001110 11100111 11110111110 1111110 11011111111 110010110 1110111010 110111111011 1101101110 111111111 11110111 111111111 111111111 101110101 111101011110 1101111010 10110111001 11110100 111011111 11011111111 111111001 11110010100 1111111111 0111111011 1111111 1111010 011111111 110110111 1111101 100101011 1001111101 110111111111 111111110111 11111111001 11101110110 111011111 1100001 1100111111 1111010111 1111100 1101111101 1100010111 11110111101 11111111 111111 101011111 11111111 111111100 1101 1011011100 111111110 11110101100 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  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 719
  • Average number of words per stanza: 138
  • Amount of lines: 550
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, saa, hans, en, og, for, i, den, som, han, det, er, at, m, af, l, alle, ikke, ei are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, paa, den, han, at, for, jeg, som, ei, o are repeated.

    The author used the same word for 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 re, l, ser, r, nger, nder are repeated).

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