This is an analysis of the poem Kirkegaarden I Sobradise that begins with:

Den hele Verden kiender Sobradise:
I dette Land var og en Hovedstad,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX ccdX XXeXeX XXX XfXe fafbb XX XX XXXfXXXX X XXXXXXX XXgffXXeXXXXbbXXXXXXX XeXXX gdXXXdXXeXXX bXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,6,4,4,6,3,4,5,2,2,8,1,7,21,5,12,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010100 111111100 11110011101 111111111 1100011101 111111100 101101101 111000101 110111011 11101110 1110110111 110111111 110101100 111111111011 11111111111 111 11111111 0101000111 111111011 1111101110 111111101 1101010100 11111 11111100101 11110110 111010100 11100 100110 111110 010100 1110011111 11111111001 1111111101 111 11100 110011111101 010111000 111101101010 11011111 1110011 110101110100 1111111 111111111 1001001001 111101111100 11010111110 11111 00110 1110111010 110111011 1101110010 111011110110 1001 001111011 1001111 11110 111111 11110011111 11110110110 11111110111 101111100101 1110011111 111111101 1101011111 11010111 110101110111 1001111101 1111101 111101101 11011011 11110110100 1111111 11100111001 11111011 11110011100 11011011 111110111 110011100 111111111 11111111 1111010 111110 1111111111 1111011111 1 010111100 111100111 1111011110 110111111 11111111 1001111 11101000 1101011001010 1100001111 100111101 110 11111111 1111111010 111000100 1111110101 11010 10111 11111101100 010100111100 11101111 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 113
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, som, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, jeg are repeated.

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