This is an analysis of the poem Til Hans Kongelige Høihed Prinds Christian Frederik 1823 that begins with:

Flyv, du første, svage Glimt -
Ak! endnu kun alt for svage,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXaXbXXbXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXbXXXXXXdXXXXXccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXccXcXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXdXdXXXXcXXcXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXcXbXXdcdcXXcXXcXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXcXXXb XXdXXXdXde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,101,55,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111 1101111 11111 1111010 01111011 1111100 1111101 110101 101011 1011101 111111 111101 111111111 1100011 10100110 1111110 111111 1111110 1111011 10111 101111 111111 1111001 1110101 101101 1110011 1111111 1110111 10111 1011111 111111 11111010 1110101 1010110 1011100 10101000 1111111 1110110 111011 1110110 11101 111100 1111100 1111100 111110 1110001 1110101 101110 1011111 1101010 1001100 1001111 111001 1110111 1111101 111001 111011 111101 111110 110001 111010 1110111 11010 111100 1110100 110010 1111110 1110001 11101110 11111110 1001100 11111010 101111 111011 111110100 100110 1111010 1011100 111101 11001 111110 1111101 1111001 1110001 1000100 101011 110111 110111 111101 111101 1111101 111111 1101110 1001111 1111110 101111 101111 101111 1110111 10110 1110111 10111 111011 11101 111010 111111 101011 111011 1111011 1101111 111111 111110 010011 10111110 111111 1101010 110111 10101010 1111111 10100110 111111 111111100 1001101 11101110 110110 11110010 1000111 1011101 111011 111101 11100110 1111110 111111 11101100 1010101 1100110 10100100 111010 10101010 1111111 111100 101101 1010011 101010 0111110 111111 1000110 100111 11111110 1111101 1000101 1000010 1011011 1010111 1000111 111101 1110101 1010111 10011100 1010110 10111110 1011111 1011110 111110 1111101000 1111101 11110100 1010011 11011110 1011100 111100 1110101 11100110 1110110 1011110 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1275
  • Average number of words per stanza: 243
  • Amount of lines: 176
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; din, de, for, du are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words glem, af, over, eene, hen are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines den, len, de, re, bne, nder are repeated).

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