This is an analysis of the poem Til Broder Dannemand, Hvem Han Ellers Er, I London that begins with:

Min kiære Landsmand! (Virkelig -
Jeg agter og jeg elsker Dig -...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXXaXXbbcXXXXXXaXXcX XXXdXeXeXXXfcXfaXXaXXXXgXXXXXfXXcXbbX XgXdXXXhXXfXfXX dXXXaXiaaXXXhXXhXXXXXXXXdgXgfXXXaXXXh aaXfXXXXXdXXXXXXXXbXbgXXiXXXXdadaXXXXcXcXXcXXXfXXXXXXhXhXXaXXXdgdXXXXXXXXXdXXXiXXcXcX XXfaXdid XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,37,15,37,85,8,41,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100 11011101 111101110 1110110 11100111 1111100 11001101 11011111 1101101 110100 101101100 1111011 1111111 11111101 11010110 1111011 1111111 110111 1111010 110101110 111111 1111001 110111010 11011111 1110101 1010110110 11111000 11101110 11001111 10111100 110011 110111 111111 01111100 1111011 11110101 11111110 1111111 1101111 01111010 1101101 0111000 01011000 1111001 1011111 11101001 1111111 11010101 1111111 111011 10011111 11110011 10110101 1111011 11001100 11010011 11011110 1011011 11011101 111111 11011101 11110101 110111 110111110 1111111 1101111 1100111 1111101 10110001 0100111 1111110 1101011 11110100 1101101 11111010 11110101 1111101 11001111 1101111 111011010 110010110 01111111 11011111 11011111 111111 11010101 11011101 110101100 111111110 11111111 11011111 1111111 1101101 111111010 1110001 11010001 11111110 11011100 11011101 111101110 1111111 110110110 111111 110110110 10010101 01111010 11110111 1111111 11010100 1011101 1101110 111101111101 1101101 110111 11110101 1111111 10110110 101101010 0110001 11011111 11101001 111011 110011 1101111 1010011 110111100 111101110 1011110 1110101 1011100 11010110 11101100 110110 10111000 110110 111101 1100010 10110111 11010101 110111 11010011 1100011 1111101 11000110 11011101 11101010 1100011 101110 11111101 1111011 1101111 10110011 111111 1111101 1101111 1111000 10111111 110101010 1111111 11110110 1111100 1100010 111111 1100011 10111101 11110001 11110010 11011101 11111111 11011111 1111111 1111101 1101101 11011111 11110111 11001111 110111 1110111 1111011 1110011 1100011111 1100010 11101110 111101010 1101011 11101110 11011101 1111011 111111 11111100 1001100 1011101 11010011 111111 10110100 1111111 1100111 11110111 1110001 11011100 111001 11011010 11010111 1111101 1101111 11110101 11011011 11011101 01001000 1111101 11111111 11110111 1100111 11101100 11010101 11110100 11000100 11110100 1101001 110111000 11110100 1110111 11010110 10111101 111011 011110 110100100 1110010 011111010 11000010 1110111 11100010 1110110 10010011 11010101 1111111 11010001 1111100 11110111 1110110 1111101 11110111 111101 111111101 11111010 11010110 110001110 1111011 10101111 11110101 111111 1111101 11111110 11010 110100010 11011101 100111111 1101111 11110111 111010 1110111 110111 11010101 1111010 110101010 1111001 11110110 1000011 1111111 1100100 11011111 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1076
  • Average number of words per stanza: 209
  • Amount of lines: 272
  • 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, og, som, er, den, til, sig, ikke, hvor, i, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, den, det, til, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, l, re, ve, lger are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase og connects the lines.

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