This is an analysis of the poem Magister Anders Paarses Trøstelige Sørgetanker Over Knud Vidfadme that begins with:

Nu ligger han da død, begravet,
Imellem Fiske, stum som de,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabXbXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXcXbXXdXdX XbXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXbeXXXXb XXXaXeXXXXXX XcXcXXXXXeXX XXXXcXXXXXXX XfXfXXdXXXXX dXdXXXXXXXXX XXbXXXbdXgXg eXeXXXXeXXXd XXXXXeXXebXX dXXXXXXXXXah cXXXXXXXXXXd XXXXXXiXibiX XaXXXXXXXXgX XXXXXbXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXbhe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111100 1001110 110101110 11111111 1111011 1111100 11111101 11000111 11010111 10111100 11100111 111100 1100110 111100 110011100 11111110 1111011 1110010 11010111 11110101 1111101 11010111 11111111 1111101 1101111 11101111 10111101 1110101 11010101 1100011 1111101 11110000 11110111 10110111 1011011 10110111 11111111 11101111 11111111 1000101 1111111 1101111 11110110 11110111 1111100 111111 111101010 101011 110111000 11110100 110111010 1101110 110101000 1001101 110111110 11111 1111010 11111 11111110 11111111 11111110 11111 110111000 1111111 101111110 1110110 111100110 1111110 1110111 11111 1111110 11111101 110111 11111101 11010111 1111110111 111001 111110 1111110 1111100 1110111 10111111 11110111 11011110 111101 1111011 1101110 11100111 1111101 11110001 1001111 111111 111110100 111101 111110 1110100 11111100 11110101 111110110 111111 11110111 11010100 1111111 11101111 1111111 1001101 1111101 1111101 11110111 1111011 11110111 1101111 11111010 1001110 11111011010 1111110 111101100 1101111 11111100 1001101 1100010 1001011 1100101 1111001 111001 1011111 1101111 1001011 1111001 100011 11011001 11000111 11011111 11101111 11110111 1111111 1111101 111111 1111011 111111 11111110 110011 111100110 1111111 11110110 11011101 1111111 1111111 1111110 1111101 1011111 11111100 1111101 1110001 1111101 11010111 111111110 1011001 11011100 1101111 1101110 1101011 111011100 111111 1001000 11011100 1111110 1101111 1110011 111010 1111001 11100 1110111 1101111 111111 11010111 11111111 1111001 1111101 111101 111110 010111 11010001 1111110 11100010 111111 01011010 1101001 0111110 111001 1101110 1111111 11111000 1111011 11110100 11011000 11110111 1110101 11110111 1101111 11111011 1101111 111111 1111111 11011111 1011101 1110111 1110111 11111111 11010101 01110111 11000100 11011111 1111111 1101101 1111111 1110110 1110101 11111110 111011 1101011 11011100 111101 11110100 110111 100111 1101011 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 228
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, vi, en, d, jeg, i, fra, til, af, var, hans, han, det, de, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, af, at, og, jeg, hver, som, fra, saa, det are repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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