This is an analysis of the poem Labyrinten Paa Rim that begins with:

Paa Reiser, tænkte jeg, man lærer eet og andet,
Og, naar man kommer holden hiem,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XX ababXXXXXXXXXc XXXXXXXd XX eeXX XXf Xf gX XXfX XXXXgXXXXXX gXgX cXXXXXd cccXcX eXee XeeXXXXaX cXXXgXXegXXe XcXcXXeXaX XcXcggXX XccXeXXXe hXXXXfhhf eXXXXXXXXXfXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,14,8,2,4,3,2,2,4,11,4,7,6,4,9,12,10,8,9,9,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111110 11110101 1101101110 111100100 11011111 11101111101 1111011100 11010011101 1101111111 1111011011 1111011111 1111111 1110 10111101 101111010 1111110 110111000 111111 01111111 10111011 11111101 1100111111 111101101 11110111010 0111111010 1101110111 1111010111 1111100111 111110101 1110011111 0101011 110101111 11011101 111100111 111111 111101100 11011111 1110011 11101101 01011111 100101110 11010001100 0111110110 111101101 111101101 11110111 111111110 111100100 110101111010 1101110100 1100101110 11000111 1010010 1101111 110110011 1111010101 1110 1110111110 111011010 11111110 11001111101 111111111 11111111 110101 110111 1101011101 111111011 11101111 1101111 1011110111 110111110110 110111 1111001 11100110 1100111101 110111101 111111111 11111111 111111110 1111101 1111011 11011101110 11110111 1101100111 1101110010 111111010 1110 110110110 11010110 110 1111110111 111100110 111101111 111010010 111111 1001001010 10001101 1101001111 1111110111 1101111110 1011101 111100100 111111111 111111111110 1110111100 11111111 1111111100 110111101 111110111 111111110 1101 111001110 1101110100 1110 1111000110 1111010100 110110110 11111101000 1111110111 1111111111 0111101100 11011111 111111101 011100100 1100011011 1110110011 111100110 11011101 1111100 110011001 1111100110 1111111 100011 10011001 111 100100001 111101101 11110110 110011110 11111 111111 0111101100 11001101 110111011 11111100 1111010111 111101110 111101110101 110100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 233
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 150
  • 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; paa, man, og, jeg, det, i, den, saa, at, til, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, i, saa are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, men 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 de, re are repeated).

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