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

Jeg skriver dig igien et Brev,
Foruden det, jeg sidst dig skrev,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXaXXXbXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXdXXXXeeeXfXXXXXXXXXXXb XXXbXXXXbXbXXabXXXXXXXXXe gfXXggXXdXXXXdXXbXfafaXXXXbXXXXbXXXXXXXXXcXXXX XXXXXX XXXdXXbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,10,47,25,46,6,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011011 10011111 101001110 1111111 110111010 111100111 01111110 1001111 1011101010 11110110 11110001 11111111 11111111 11111110 1101111 101111 1000111 11110100 0110111 1011101 111101 1101010 11011110 11011010 1101101 100100000 110111010 1110111 111001000 11110111 1111101 111101110 11010101 101011110 111111010 11010111 1111011 11100011 11110111 1101110 11101011 1001111 1111111 11100100 110100 11101010 01011100 11110111 1011010 1101111 11011100 1011111 1101111 11001101 1111100 10011111 1101111 1111111 111111 1100111 11010101 111101 11010111 10111111 111011 11110111 110111 11111101 11010111 111111 11111011 1010011 1111110 10100101 11000001 1101110 11011110 11111110 1101111 11111111 11111101 111101 111001 11101 11100101 11011101 111111100 111111 1111110 110101 111111 110111100 11011100 1100111 1111111 11111100 11010101 11010001 111111 100011 10110111 11011101 11010101 1101111 11110111 1111010 11111110 01011001 1100011 1110110 111101010 11111110 11110110 1101111 11111110 1101011 1100101 11111100 11011101 11000110 11110111 11111110 1111101 11011101 110011010 11111001 11111110 1111101 100110110 11011101 11111101 111111010 11111101 11110111 11111110 1111111 11101110 11110101 111101110 111001110 11110111 11011101 11111111 11111110 111111110 11011100 111011000 1110101 111111 111111 11001110 01010001 1111100 100111110 11110110 10110111 111111000 11111110 1111110 10111001 111110 10110101 111110011 10101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 746
  • Average number of words per stanza: 145
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; jeg, for, og, en, hop, af, i, fyr, fra, saa, den are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word jeg 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 sen, nke, ile are repeated).

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