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

Den er der da, den frygtede blandt Dage,
Vor Hersomssamqvems Afskeedsdag:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXXXXX aXcXX XXXXXXXX deXXXXefXXXXeXX XXXX gXXXXXhXXX XXXXaahXXXXXXXXbbXXdXXX aaXXXXff XXiiXaXXXXXXXhXXXX XdXgX XXXXXXabXddXXXXXfgdXXaXXXXXaaXaX XXXXbbffXXXd fXXXaXXXXd XXXXXXXX XXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,8,15,4,10,23,8,18,5,32,12,10,8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111011 11000100 011111110010 1111111001 1101101101 1111111 110011011 11010111 11101110 1111111110 1110100 1101101111 11011111 1101111 1111000110 1111 11111001 11001111 1110000 110100111 11111011 110111111100 110000110110 1111101 11110011110 1111000111 1111111 11111101100 110100011 1111111111 1101 110111011 111100111101 1010101 11011111 1111100110 111011 11111101 01111111 1111111111 111111101100 111111001110 1011011110 1101111 111100 01111111101 10011111 111101111 1000110111 110111111 1100111100 10111111 11010111100 10001101110 1111011 0110110010 1011010111 111111111 1111111101 11111100011 1111111 10101101110 10100111 111011111 111111101010 110111101 111111110 110110110 11010011110 11100111101 1110001010 1111001000 111001100000 1100001110 11000111010 1111111110110 110110111 1111001111 110111111010 11110111010 1110001001 110010111 1111111110 11000011110 110011110 110111011 110111111 1111010111 110110111 1101111 1111010111111 11010111001 111101000 111111101 111100001000 11111101000 1100111000 1101111101 1111100100 10100111 11010011111 111101110010 1101000011 1111111010 1110101100 111101111 110111111001 11111001 11110111001 11110110 1111111 111001110110 10011111 111010011 10001111 110111111 111000010 1110001010 1101111 1100001101 10001110 11 1001111111 111001101110 110111110101 110111110 110101010 111011101 11110011 110111111010 111111000 11011101110 11010111110 111011 1111101 10110011101 110111110 1000111101 11111111110 110111110 111110 11001110 1100 110101101 1110110111 1111111101010 110111110 11111110111 110111100 11111111000 1111001101110 1101111 111110011 10110010 01001111 111101111 11010101100 1111111010 1110011011 11110011111 111111111010 1111111 111111100 11110010 110101 1101110111 1101010 111100 1111011001 1100110011 1101110 1101110100 1000101110 1111111110 11000011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 446
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 175
  • 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; d, og, naar, de, min, jeg, ved, hvor, mig, i, fra are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words naar, at, ved, hvor, og, den are repeated.

    The author used the same word den 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 de, len, r are repeated).

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