This is an analysis of the poem Parnas-Revolutionen that begins with:

For nogen Tid det Rygte gik,
At Amor, denne Gud, der var saa rask, som liden,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXaXbbXbXaXXaccXaaaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXeedXXXXX XXXXXeXXb XXXXXXXX eXdXXXXXXafgXgX XXXXf XXXbXXXhbXXXXXXXXXd ieXXiXXXXXbX hiiheXXeXh bXb XbbXdXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,9,8,15,5,19,12,10,3,14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 110111111110 1101111110 11001111 1000111011 101110111010 1101111111 11101011 1111111101 1101011001 110111110110 1001101010 11011110 11010000 1100111110 0101 110111110 111101110 11111010 100111100111 111101101 1111111 11101010 1100101010 110101010 11000111110 101101110011 111111101 101101011 1101011101010 011101110 111110101 111111100 010111111 11001110 0110001011 1101101101 11111100 111110 1111110001 1000010000 1110 11111000 10111101 1111 1111111111 110111111 1111011000 111111111 1110000111 1010001111 111100101 1101100110 1110101 111111101 110101101 11001111011 11110011110 1100111 1111111 100011111 11110100 11111 11001111 111111010 110001010 11111011111 111001010 111111 11011111 1111100111 1111010101 111111101 111111101 11011111001 111101100 1001101101010 11010011011 100101110 1111010110 1111111 11111011 10011 1110010101 11101111001 11101011 10100111111 01100011 11111100 110110010 1110011111 11111101 111010011 110011111 111111110 10111110110 11111111111 100101110100 1111011101 100011101 110101001 1101011101 101101111100 1111010 11010110101 1001000101 1101011001 1110101 110010110100 010110101 101011101 111111100 111101111 100010111 1111101111 1010011011 11111111 111110111 11 1111111011 101111 110110100 110111111 1111101111010 110011100 11111111 101111111 100011101 111111001 11010101101 11000100 1111111101 1001111110001 110111010 110111101 11111010 1111111101 1111010110 11011011011 11010100 1110010100 11101111 11011011 11011110 110110111101 11101111000 110111101 111110101 1101001100 110100110101 100101111 11011101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 566
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • 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; det, tre, evig, dr, i, den, meer are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, re are repeated).

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