This is an analysis of the poem Min Egentlige Genialitet that begins with:

Du, som blandt alle Nordens Mænd
Har meest af Sydens hulde Varme,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXXXbXXXaXXXXcXXdXXeXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXgXXXXXXXXXXXXhdXXXXiXXXXdXdXXXXXXbXXXXXXXX XaXXaXXXXXiXi XjXjXXXXXXaXXXXXbh keXeXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXhXXXX XXXXbclXlXhXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX abXXXXXXbbXbXXbbXXXXXXhXhXXXXXXXXXXXXXeeeXXXkXkXXXXXXXXXXXf XXXXbXXXXeXdeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,49,13,18,16,8,29,59,45,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111101 1111011 11101001 11011101 11011101 110111 1011111 1001111 11011110 10110111 11111110 11111000 11011111 1111111 10011100 11110110 1111111 11111010 11100001 11001111 11001011 11011110 1111010 1111110 1101101 111111 1110110 1101000 11010101 01010011 0111110 101111111 110110000 11000100 10001111 111100100 111111100 01010111 110110110 01111110 10001101 11011010 11111101 11010110 10010101 11111 11101111 1011100 1111111 11110111 1111110 111111 0110100 11111110 1101000 1111111 110101000 111110010 11111110 1111100 1111101 11110011 11111110 11011101 11101101 1101111 111101010 11111111 11110111 1001111 10111110 1110011 111001110 1101111 10110110 1100111 10101110 11011100 101101 11110111 11110111 11011011 111011 1101111 111111 11111 011011 11111111 1100011 1111100 1111111 11110111 1110111 1101100 11010111 1110101 1111111 111111 11110111 1111111 11111111 1101111 11001101 11111101 1101101 01010010 1101111 11011101 1110010 1001111 1101111 1101011 1110111 01111010 0111111 1111101 1111110 1110111 111011 101111 11110101 1011110 11011101 11111110 11110101 11110111 110111 110111 11001011 1100111 11110111 111101 1101110 110111010 1101111 11110110 11111101 10010110 11100111 1110111 11000111 11110101 1111110 11010011 111111 11111100 11100111 11011011 11011011 11111111 111111110 11011011 1111011 1111111111 110101010 10111111 1101110 1101011 11010110 11110101 110110110 1101111111 110101100 11011101 110111110 1111011 11110011 11010111 11111111 1111011 1111011 1100111 11110011 1111111 110011110 1101001 111101010 11001001 11100111 11110111 1111101 111110 11111001 11111011 1101111 11100101 110111 1111101 101101 11111 111111001 111111 111010 1111011 11100010 11011100 1111001 11011101 1101111 1100111 1011111 10110110 10001101 1100111111 1111101 11111110 11101101 11110101 11111100 10110 11111101 11010111 11010101 11011111 1111111 11111110 1101010 11110111 1111111 111111 1111 11111 1111111 1111000 1111111 111111110 110111110 111111000 1100111 10111110 111010 111111010 11111110 110010100 10100101 111111110 11011000 1101111 10010001 1101011 1110100 11111110 11011101 111010 110111110 10100011 11100100 11011101 10110100 11000001 1101101 11011101 11110001 1101110 1101001 1101010 11000111 11010101 1111101 11110111 1110011 111111 1111111 11011101 11111101 11011100 11100110 1101101 111111100 1100101 101101 1100011 11111001 11110101 10011100 1111110 1111011 11010100 1111111 11101111 11000111 101111 1111111 11111101 011111 11011110 11011000 11011101 1111110 10110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 909
  • Average number of words per stanza: 181
  • Amount of lines: 290
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, en, for, og, min, til, jeg are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, kke are repeated).

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