This is an analysis of the poem Overhovedet Og I Grunden that begins with:
De stikler ved hver given Leilighed,
Min ellers ædle Ven, paa Held, jeg har i Munden;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXa XXXXXXXXXaa XXXXXX bcXXbc XaXaX XXXXXX XXXXXd eXeXaX XaXaaXa fdfdXf XgXgXX dXXXaXaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,11,6,6,5,6,6,6,7,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110100 110111111110 1101000010 1111101 11111111110 10110000110 110111110 110 1111000110 11010111111 111101100 11010111010 1111011101 11110101 11101111110 010010110 1001011 111110011001 1111000010 11110110011 111010 111001110100 111000011 11001111 11110011 1101110111 1101010001 101110101 111000011 111011110 11010110110 1101110110 1111 1101000011 11010111 1110111110 111000011 11010011 1010001110 1101000011 101111100100 110101111110 1110110110 111011011110 0110001101 1100011101 110111110101 1100001101 110111111 010100110 11000 1100000101 11111110 111101111 10111110 1111111 1111001111 1100111110 11001100 0101000011 1111010111 10111101 11110111110 1101010110 1101000011 1101110 11001011 1101001101 1100001101100 1111001110 1101011111 11010101101 111101111000 110101111 1100001101110 11111001 11111101 110101111101 10011110
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 79
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; som, i, at, en, er, og, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word grunden at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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