This is an analysis of the poem Til General-Krigscommissair Astrup that begins with:

Tak, kiære Ven! for Bladet du mig sendte
For otte Dage siden, og hvorved...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXabbXXXXXcXXXX bXdeeXcXcXXdXdXXfXX XXXfXXXXcXfcXXXfaXbX DgXXfXdDbbbX XhXXiXXXhgXXXXaXXXXdXXXbXbbXXiXi XXdXd XXidXXdXXXXcXdXXXXXXX XXXXjXXjXXXXXibdXbXcccXXiidXXXXbXb XXXXXdXX XbXd gXXXX ccXggX XhhXXXXX XXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,19,20,12,32,5,21,34,8,4,5,6,8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110011 11110110 111111 11110101 11010111 10011110000 111111111 1101101 1111 1110 11011100 111111101 11100110111 1001011 10 100111111 1111 1101110111 11 1010100111 111110111 1111 11110110111 10010011 11011111 11 1011101110 11111111 110001111 101111111100 01011110 01111110 11110101 111110010 1111111010 11110 0101110 111011010 1011111010 1001011011 011011 11 1101110111 110110111 110101101 111110111 011110001 01101100100 1011010 110111111 111110110 1101111101 111001 11111 111001 1101111110 1101101000 111010 1110111 111101111 111011100 111111111 11011101 1111110 1111111 11011101 1011101100 1011111 110111111 11011101010 1111110 111111 111101011 1111111 1111111100 111111 110101010 111101110 110111010 111111 1111100 111111 11110111 110101010 111111 11111100 11011100 1111111 1111110 1101111 1011100 1111111 110101011 110111011 011111110 11011110 11 11011100 0110101 1101011001 111011111 11100011 1111101 011101111 111010001 111111 111111 11111111100 11011111 1111100010 1111010 111110110 11010101100 1110110001 1111111 1111100101010 1101011 1111101 11100111110 1101111110 111010111 111001101 11111111 1101011111 111111010 111100010 01010001000 111111 11111110 11011101 1111110 111111010 11111110 110101010 1111101 1111110 11011101 1101101 111 1111000 1101101 1001011 1110010 11100111 111111100 1101010111 1101110001 1111001 11010110 1100001111100 1010111 1110010111 11011001 110101101 1111111101 110101111 1111111 11111101 1111110111 1100010101 11110111 100111100 1110101100 1101000101 111111110 110111011 111101110 11010101100 100101101 111111011 1110101 11100 01110 11111111 1101 1010010100 100111111 111111110 11100110 11110100101 100111111 11110100 111101101 100111101 110110111 11110111 110100011 11101 1101111101 10 110111110 110101110 1101111110 1111111 11010111011 1010011 1110111100 1110111 111011111 110101001 1111010011 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 432
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 204
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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, mt, paa, som, i, den, dem, og, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, det, meer, der, hvor are repeated.

    The author used the same word hvad 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 mt, n, hen, lger, re, k, de are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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