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

I faa, som end tilbagebleve,
Blandt dem, som elskte mig engang,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXaXbXXXXXXXbXXbXXXXcXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXddXcXXXXXbXdeXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXfXXfXXXXXXXXXXdXdghghXhXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 104,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111000 1111110 1111111001 111111111 110011011 11001 111011101 1101001 111110001 11110111 11110011110 11011 1101100111 111111101 111101001 1111001000 1100010000 10011011001 11001000 1100100 111101111 111101 1111011 1110101 10010101 111011110111 111111011 1101010011 10010010 101001111 110111110 1101011101 1111111011 1110111 11001000 11100001 111101110 1001111111 1000111000110 1101100 1101101110 1101110 1100110000 1100101 111011101 1100100 11000111110 11110110 111110111 110011111 11011111 1101111111 11111111 110111101010 11110110110 011100 111111010 111100111 111111010 111011 1111111 10100110 11101101 1100 11111110 111101001 1100111 1111011010 111101110 1111001110 1111111 111111 1000100 1111101 101110 111001110 111110110111 1000111 10111110 111101 1100100000 101101110 1011111111 11111111110 1000011100 111110110 111010101 1111011101 11111111100 111111110 111110 0111101 110011111 1011111111110 1101100101 1110110 1111010 1110010101 111011000 11111111 1110100 10010111001 11001000110 1111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3726
  • Average number of words per stanza: 682
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • 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; i, med, r, hos, for, og, den, af, folk, de, som are repeated.

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

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

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