This is an analysis of the poem Ode Til Sommerfuglene that begins with:

I Blomsterengle, som min Aand forynge,
Mens Øiet fro betragter eders Klynge...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXaXXXa XXXXbXXXXcX XdeXXXeXXXX XXXdXbXXcbX dXXXXXXXdXX XcXXbXXXXXX XXXXXXXXbXX XXfXXXfXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011110 111100101 110101101 111110010 11011010 1100110011 100111100 1110011000 100111000 1101010111 1101111000 10111101110 1110111010 1111001 11101111 10010101 11111101 10011111 110110110 1111111010 1100011000 111111101 1101110110 1100011000 1100011001 1110011101 11111010 110011000 01101111 1111111 110010001 101111 1101010001 1111010000 101111010 1100011001 1110100 1001101000 11010001000 11101101 11110001000 111010100 110010110010 1111011 1001011101 11011111110 110111010 110111110 11011001100 11101011 1001100100 110111001 1001011111 111010001 111000100 11010101010 111110110 111110101 110110100 1100110000 1111110100 1111010101 110111110 11011100010 0101111010 1101110110 1001111100 1111101110 1011001 10011100 11111111110 1011101100 10101100 1101001100 11100111000 1101111000 10101111 1101110011 101010101 110010100 111011110 1101111110 1100010101 1111110101 110101011 1001101111 1111110100 111111111 1111111000 1101110110 111011111 1111111101 110111000 111011010 100111101 11110000110 111110010 11110101100 111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 99
  • 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, og, i are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ine is repeated).

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