This is an analysis of the poem Til Den Mig Ubekiendte Forfatter Af,,Rimelige Strøe-Tanker Ved Jens Baggesens Grav'' that begins with:
Hvem er du Sphinx, der paa mig stirrer
Saa gaadefuld og tankerig?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,45,16,33,17,17,21,54,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111110 11001100 11011110 11011110 1001111 110111100 10011001 1001011 11110110 111111101 10011001 1111110 11000011 110110110 110111111 111111100 1100101 111011000 11011010 1101100 111111 11010001 1101111 11011100 11011111 1110100 11001100 11110011 1101110 111110 1001100 110011 11011110 11010001 11110101 110100110 10011101 11011101 111101110 110101 1110001 1011110 1101010 11110101 11110111 11111101 1111111 110101011 1111111 11111001 1111111 10010110 111110010 11110100 11111111 11011110 0011101 1110100 1101101 11111110 1101011 10110101 11101 11111101000 111101111 10111110 101111 1101101 11111100 1110111 10100100 11001100 10111111 1111111 111111 1111101 101010110 111001 10111101 11011110 1101111 111111 1011011 1001101 11110101 11110101 1101011 10010101 1111111 1100111 11100111 1111111 1101111 1110110 1011111 1001011 1101011 1111101 11100001 1111011 111101010 11000111 111011010 1100101 11111111 110100010 11111101 1101011 11101110 1001110 1111100 11011110 11000001 11110110 1101101110 1111101 1111111 11110111 11110111 11110011 1101111 1110111 11110000 111111 110110101 11111010 11111101 11100101 111110111 1111111 10111001 1001111101 101111010 11011010 1111111 10011011 11011110 110010000 1101111 11111000 111011 10111110 1110101 11011101 1110011 1101011 11110101 11110001 1111011 11111 11011111 1111101 1110111 1101011 111110010 111000 11011110 110111 11111101 1111101 1111011 1011111 1111100 1101111 10011111 1111101 1001010 1100101 01100101 11011100 11011111 11110000 11111000 10101100 11000111 1110110 11011110 11011111 1011110 10010111 11111111 1111011 1101101 111111 11111101 1110111 1111110 1111111 11110111 101101 11111101 11011011 110111110 11010110 11011111 11001111 111111110 110101110 11110111 01011101 11111101 1101001 111001 1100011 11111101 11010001 11111010 101011 111111 11111111 1101001 11010100 1101111 11110111 1111010 111111000 11100100 01110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 900
- Average number of words per stanza: 170
- Amount of lines: 218
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; mig, du, paa, i, holberg, re, lod, som, saa, den, det, lidt, og, de, r, trods are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words paa, og, saavel, den, det, jo, som, trods are repeated.
The author used the same word hvem 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 mmer, re, nger, rke, rer are repeated).
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