This is an analysis of the poem Niende Sang that begins with:

Jeg ser saa nødig, Læser, at du sover.
Hvordan min Helt kom hjem, hvordan han hilset blev...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbbXc XX XXXXdXdedXXe XX XXXXXXfgXXaaXXXXX XahaXXXfeXXXXXXXiXiX XXXX hXXhX XXXXXXXajX XgXXXXXffXhXXXXXXXaXah XXiXXiXXXaXXXafXak aXaXXhXhXXaXXXXXXXcXXaXllXXXXjXX hXXXXXieXXXXXaXXXXXXXaXXX eXXXXXXXXXXaXXX XkiXXhbXXXXbXaXX XXXi X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,2,12,2,17,20,4,5,10,22,18,32,25,15,16,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111010 101111101101 11001111011 1110010 1111001101 1111001110 1110111001 10111001 11011111 11010110011 100111101110 111111110 101111101 100111111 1111101011 110110011 1111111 1111011001 10011101110 1111110011 11010111111 1111010100 11010001010 11110111 11111110 1111011 1111101111 110011111 110111100 1100010001 100011111 110110110 1101011 111110101 011110100 10011011110 1010111110 11110000010 10111111 11110111 110111110100 110111101110 1011011111 110101101110 01101110 0111111110 101110110 1111111100 111110111110 111111 1011001011 11001101110 110011101 110111111 10110010 11011111111 11101011 1001011101 11111111 1101011111 1111001110 1101111101 1111011 1101101101111 11011111 11011111 10110 1111111 11010 11111110 1111111111 1111101100 01011111111 1111001111 10111111 11110101011 1010001 1100110110 1101111 11011100110 11010111101 1111111011 1000101101 1110111 11101100 11000101 110010111 11111111 101110110 110100101101 110010101 11111110 101100101 1101010110 111100110 101100101 11111110 11110111101 11011100110 11000111 11101111010 10111011 1111001110 11101111 1101111110 111111101 1111011101 111011010 111011000 110110101 1111011000 1111011111 1101010001 111111110 111101101 11110100010 1101111000 110110110 101001110101 111010000 100110111010 11101110 11110111010 11010001 100011110 11110011 111101110 11110111011 1001110000 11111111 110101010 11111111 111111110 1110011111 1101011011 110101111101 1011110110 1111110 1101010100 111110111 110100110101 11111110010 11011110100 11110101010 111111110 1101111101 111000111 1110111 11111110011 110101110 1101101110 110101011 11110 11110111 100111101 1111011101 1001100111 11101111 1101011010 1110010110 11101111 1101011110 1111101 1111111101 11101110001 11011001 110011111 11011110 1101011000 11111010 11111101 11011111111101 11100111 1101011000 110111101 1011101010 1111111 1101110101 11001010 111110011 1111111110 11111110010 1101001110 110101110100 111000101 01111111 10111101 110111100 11111100 111110010 110 111011101 11011111 100111100 11101111 10011110 111010011 1111111 1111111 11111101010 11111111 11010111010 1100 110101001 110111101 100101011 1101111100 111111110 110100100 1101111010 1001111101 11110110 110110110 111111101 1101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
  • Average number of words per stanza: 93
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; saa, at, det, for, jeg, den, i, til, og are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, lge, s, n, de are repeated).

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