This is an analysis of the poem Til Generallieutenant Ernst Frederik V. Walterstorff, Kongelig Dansk Gesandt I Paris that begins with:

Imens paa Mogens Giøes og salig Dreyers Viis,
Til Kongehusets Tarv og Fædrelandets Ære...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbcdXXXeXXdXXeeXXXXXXXd XXXXeXdXXXXXXXXX XXXXXX dXdXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXe deeXXdXde XXXXXceXXXXXcaXX XXaXXXXafXgXdaXXXXXXXXXXXXX hXXXXdXXXiXXXXXXh fXXXXXXXXXdggfXXdXfeXfXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXaXdXXXXfXXXeXgXXiXXXcXXXXXXXXeXXhXhXjXjXXXXXXXX XfXgXXdhXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,16,6,8,16,9,16,27,17,26,63,16,9,37,7,24,14,23,10,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101110101 11000111001 1001110101 0101111111 101101001 100010110 100111001 1101011101 110110001 1101111101 111011001 1111111 1011111111 100101111 1110011101 0111111101 1100 11101 101111110 110111101 110111111 110111111111 1101110100 11010011111 100101111010 11010110011 111001101 1100100 100011111 1111111110 11010111 111101110 110101110 1101111 1101110100 1111111 1100011111 1111011111 1111110101 1100010111 101100111 11011111110 0100110 11010111100 111000111 11111101101 11110011000 11111111 1000111 111110111 1110110 1111111111 11110011 111110111 111010111 011110010 1111101001 1101011010 11111110 1111111110 1101001100 10111110010 1111011111 1011011100100 1101111101 1111111111 111110100 1111011111 1000101 1111101110 1110001110 1111111110 1110100001 100111101 1111010011 100111001 1100010101 1100110100 110111111 1111110011 1111010011 111101101 10011011110 110111010 11011110110 110111011 1001010111 1111111111 11111100111 111001110 1111111010 1111101 11110101010 110111111 1111010010 111110011 111110110 11111001110 100101110 11101110 111111011 1000111100 1111011011 1110001001 1100110111 111111101 1111110110 111100111 1011011111 1111111111 1101001101 1101110011 111111111 111011011 1101011111 1101101101 110101111 11111011 1111110100 110111111 11111011 111110111 111101001 11101111111 11111111 1111110011 10100110100 101100110 10001111 11111110110 1100101111 1110111 11010011110 110011011 111001101 11101101 110100111 11010011 11110011 111110110 111010110 1110101 11010101110 111111111 11011110000 1111111100 101110111 111100111 10111111101 100011011 110101010 1111110101 10001101 11110 111101111001 1111011110010 1110111101 1111111 1010011 11111111110111 10110111110 110101001 1111111 11111110 010111111 01111000 101101111 1101011101 0111001110 110101101 11111111 11001100 10101100 1111011110 11000100110 1011110111 110011111 01111101100 1101001100 11111101000 1111111000 0111011011 111111 11111111 110111101 11111110 01101111 1111010010 111101100 0111111110 11100100 10110000010 110111101 0111110100 1110111101 1101110101 101100100 11110111 111001111 0111011010 11011110 11110100100 11011011 0111011101 1101111 1101111011 1011111101 01111101000 111111 1001011000 1111000101 011100111 111101111 1101110111 01011111 1111101111 111111001 111111101 110111011 11011101100 1101111001 1001111110 1111001 11111101100 1011011011 01000010100 1100111110 11110001110 011101111 11011111000 111101010 11101111010 1101011010 11110111110 1110010101 110111111 11111111 1100011111 111101111 1101111111 1100011110 1011110111 111110111 111101001 111011110 111011101 1101011111 111110100 111111111 0110111111 1111011 110111101 110110111 11110111 11111101 11111001100 111111101 101100111111 1101110010 11111101 1001110111 101110001 110111111 11111101 110100100 1101011110 11011111 11111011110 100111111 111110110 1111111111 1111110111 111101111 111011010 1111011111 111111100010 1101010101 11111011 111101111 111101101 10111101 11011101110 11100111 11111101110 11100111 11101111110 1111011101 1011101100 1111010111 10011101110 1100110001 111111010 111001100 11111101 11111101011 1101011110 1100110101 111001 111110010 111100100 1101111101 1111010110 1011111101 1111110111 1101110110 11101001 111001111101 1111010111 101101111 110111111 11111011 110110101 110111011 111 11101111001 11011110100 111110111 1111010010 111011111 1111110110 111101111100 101111101 11010111 1110101111 011111111 1010011111 1111010110 1111011011 111110101 11001101110 111111111 110101100101 111110011 11001101 1101111 1101110110 111011111111 11110101 110101110101 1111111110 110011111110 1111110110 11111111101 1101110011 11110111 1111110111 111010101 111001100 011111101 111111111 111110110100 1101010 111111010 11010101 111111000 1101111111 1111010101 11110111110 111111011 1110010001 1110110011 1111001111 1100101101 11110011 11110111 11110101 111110110110 11011001111 01101111101 01101011111 11111011101 11011100 1111111 110111110 1110110 101101011 1101011111 110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 736
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 378
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, i, d, jeg, de, til, det, han, hvor, at, af, for, der, min, ver are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, i, hvor, for, som, naar, spring, mens are repeated.

    The author used the same word saaledes 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 d, mme, sen, nge, ie, t, be, de, mmer are repeated).

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

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