This is an analysis of the poem Sjette Sang that begins with:

Tre stive Timer nød min Helt med Sjæl og Krop
Den hele Fryd, han pilled af den Tanke:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXXXcXXXddXX XXXXXXXXXeXXXdXX ccXfXXXgXeeXXXb XddXXhXXXfiXXXfiXXcX XXXXXX XXiiXXiiXXXXXXXXXjifXj hXXXXXkXfXXdX XXXXXXXiXXbXXhXhXXXXdXXliil XcXXdiXX iXXeXXXeXeXXdXfXXXXdiX XXXXX XXgXllXXXb cXcXhXXXXXXXiXXX XkXeXddXXXXXgiXiXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,16,15,20,6,22,13,27,8,22,5,10,16,18,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101111111 111110111 11110111011 11011111 1111100100 11001111101 1101011101 1111101110 11111010 11111110111 11110111111 11101001 111101001 111111100101 110111000 11011110100 111111100 11001111001 0111011011 10011011 1100001101 110101111100 1011110010 110001010101 11111011111 11111111110 11010110100 01010111101 0101111001 11011110010 10111011111 110111101010 111001110010 1111001000 1101111101 111111101 110101111 11110111110 110011101 10110101010 11111111111 11100101100 1111101101 11011111110 110001001 110111 110001 1111110011 1111110111 111101111110 10001111011 11101111111 0111011111000 111011 11111111 111101011 111111 111110110111 11000101000 1111111101 100011 1101111101 11111111 1111111100 11111100 11011011110 1001001110 11111011 1101111111 110101110 111111101 1111010 11110011 1100101111 10111001 11111001 0101010101 11110111 1101100111 111110111 1111110 11111110111 11111111111 1110001111 1100010100 1100011100 1100110001 101010100 11111110111 11111111111 1111111 1110111111 11011111100 1110101111 1111011111011 11011011111 1110111011 11011111111 1101011110 111101110110 110110111101 1111011111 1001011111 1101111100 1101111101 111111111 110001001110 11011010 11111011001 110011010 1110010110 1110111 110111011 11111001 110001110010 11111011110 110110001 1101111001 11101011 1101011 111111001 111011011 111101111 111011000 111000010 1111111 11111011 11011111 1011101111 11101101 111110001 1011111111 11111010101 111010101 110101110010 010111010 1101110110 1101111000 111101101 11110011110 110110100 1111111110 110110111 1001011 11011100010 111101 11110110110 10110011 11111110111 1101111 111101111 11011101 11111110111 1111001 11111101 10010111 110110110101 110110110 110011111 110111111101 011011101 1110101101 11101011 100101110111 11011011110 1111111011 1101111101 11011111111 1111010101 111111011111 11110111010 11111111111 111111110 110100011 11101001 11101011 111010001 1111111100 100111110101 10111101110 11111011 1111111110 101110111 11111001 10111011111 110111111 110111011 111110111 111111111010 1101110111 1111111 111101110 11111011 11000111110 1111110111 0011111111 1101011 10111100 111111111 11011110110 1111000111 11101110101 1111110111 1101110101 110111111 101111101 1111010101 1111111101 1111001110110 111111111100 110111101110 111110101111 001111110110 11110111011 1111111111 111011111 11100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
  • Average number of words per stanza: 117
  • Amount of lines: 217
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, er, den, jeg, d, at, til, fra, for, saa, ved, ej are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ver, nke, re, lger, d are repeated).

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