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

Ved mine sidste Samlinger af Ord,
Hvori jeg hiemme gav min Aand til Skue,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXaXXXXXXXb XXXXXbbccdXXdXXX XXdXbXXbXeecXXXXeXXX XXXX XXaX XXX XXX XXffXaXXXaXXXaXXXX XXXXXXXXXaXXdX XXXXXXgXgXX XXXXXXXXXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,16,20,4,4,3,3,18,14,11,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110011 101111111 1111111111 11101111 11011011 111111011 11100111 11101111 11011111111 1110111 1111111 1111111 111101 1101 111100111 1111011 1101001110 1000100111 111001110011 110111111 11111110111 1101101101110 101101110 100111 1111111010 11010010 11100100 1110000 111111101 11111001010 0110001111 11001100 110111110 11011111100 1111111 110110 1111101011 1111111 110101011 1111000110 10010110 1101011 1111111 1110111110 1111011001100 111110 1111110110 1110011111 111011 11100 1101010 1010111011 101110101 11010101100 1110101010 11011111 1101011001 11001101100 1100111111 10111111000 11111101000 1101011001 11010111010 11011100 110111111 11000100 11111111 111011111 101110 110010011 11001011 1111111110 110111011 11011001 1111001 110010 1111100 111101111 111110100 110110111 100111 11100100 110001110 110011110 100111110 11111011 1111 1011011111 111111111 111110111 11100100 110111011 110111100 111110100 11110110 0101100 1101110110 11110110111 11 10111111 11010 111111001100 1111110101 111111111100 1101 1111011100 1111100 11111110101 01011101 101111011 11100100 11 1111011011 111000111 11011110 11 11111111010 110110110 0110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 382
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 119
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, jeg, som, i, til, d, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, og, om 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 d is repeated).

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  • summary of Runen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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