This is an analysis of the poem Ode Til Kæmmereer V. Harbou that begins with:

Tak, ædle Mand, som, selv til Hove
(Hvor Faa kun holde, Mange love)...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX XXXXXb XXXXXX XXcXXc XXXXXX dXeXXX XXeXXe XXbXXX XXdXXX XbcXXc XXXXXX XXXXXX XXfXXX XXgXXg XXfXXX dXcfXc XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX dXXaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 111111 10111111 11010110 1100001 1100011 11101110 101101100 0111111 0111111 1011100 11110010 111001 111011 11011111 11111110 11011110 1111111 010100110 11111110 10011001 11111101 11111111 11011111 11001111 11110111 11111101 1111011 1110111 10111101 11111101 1101101 101010 1110110 11110111 111111 1111111 11010111 1111011 101111101 11111111 111110 10110111 11010110 1110010 1111111 11001111 11110010 11111111 11111011 1111101 111111110 110111110 1111000 111001110 101001110 1111111 11010110 1010101100 1111111 1101101111 101111 111100 111111000 11101010 11100111 11111101 1101011 1101010 110010000 111101110 11101100 11110011 1111111 1110011 110111110 11001110 11110110 11111101 1111011 11111111 11111111 10110101 11111111 1101010010 11101100 1101101 11111111 1110101 11101110 11011011 111001110 110111 10110011 11110111 111111 0110111 1111100 1111100 11011110 11011100 1101111 01111111 1101100 111101 110110 11011111 1100011 01111110 11011100 1011111 11111110 111101100 01110110 0110111 1101101 01011110 1111101 1111111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; men, det, fra, og, tak, for, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, fra, tak, den, til, er are repeated.

    The author used the same words han, tak, er at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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

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