This is an analysis of the poem Nytaarsmødet that begins with:

Naar jeg lidt dybt paa det, jeg sidder i –
Jeg sidder nemlig midt i Poesie...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXcXXXXXXdXaXXXXee XXXXeXXXXXeXX Xf XXXdXXXXXgXXhhXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXgbXgbXXXfXXhXXhXXh iXXiXXiXXXXXXXXXcXXbbf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,13,2,17,34,22,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111101 11010111 11011101010 1111111010 1111010 111111001 1110110111 1110111101 11011111111 111111111 110111 11 10110011111 1111111111 1101111 11111110111 1111111111 11011111 1111 1101111101 11110011 11111101 110111111 1101110010 1111111 111000110 111110111 11111110001 1101111 1111111111 100111111 111110111 1111110111 1101110110 111111100 11011011 111001111 11011101 11010010001 110101011 1110100 1111111011 111101010 11001100 101011111 1100011 1011101110 110101110010 1101 1110 111100 1110110 110110111 101111110 1100111101 1111111110 10111111 110101111 111101111010 111000110100 110111111 1101110110 111111110 11011011101110 1101110111 110111111 101100101 110111110 1100100101 11110001 1101101 1111011111010 111101011 1101011 101101110 110101010100 1101110 1101111 111101 1101110000 111111110 111111010 11010110011 11001010 1100110110 1111001101 111011101 1100 11010100010 111011101 1110010111 111111111010 1111101 11011101 11011001010 10110111011 1001111011000 111111111110 111001011110 11111111 100111 1110111010 110111010 10011101000 10011100010 111000111 110110111 11101101110 1101011110 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
  • Average number of words per stanza: 136
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; jeg, i, samme, at, veed, d, mig, af are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rer, sen, gge, d are repeated).

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