This is an analysis of the poem Tilbagegangen Over Rubicon that begins with:

Sex hele søgne Dage siden
Den første Søndag i det sidste Aar,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX aaXXXXbXXXXXcXX bXXXXdX XXXXXXXXeaXdXXee XfXXcXXXX XgdXdXXXXXXg XhXiXeXXXXcjXXjXXXgXXXXXX XXXXXXjjXXXXhhXXiXkXkXXdXd XXdXddXXXb XXXXXXXXXXXXXXjXXeXXhfXXXbXXXXXXXXX XbbdXllXdbXXX XXXebXXcbXddfXXd XXaXjXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXcXXXXXXXegXXX XbXXcdXXXXXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,15,7,16,9,12,25,26,10,35,13,16,18,16,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 1111111 1111010111 10010110 111110100010 11110011110 11011100110 1100011011 10001111 1101010111 01101111 111011101 1111111 11001101010 110111100110 11000100101 110000110 11000111 11110111111 11101001 101111111111 100111110 1011000110 0111100111 11110011 111011001 111111111 011100111 1101011101 1011010 1111111010 101111 1100111110 111001111 1101111 10011111 111011 110111101 11111111001 100101111100 110110010 010 1110111111 1001010011 0101 1111111101 10001101 11010010 1100010101 1111111 10111011 110101010 11111101 110110111 1111111101000 101111110111 1111101110 1101111101 11111110110 110100110 1111011001 1111111110 111 111101101011 1111011101 1111011 10100111101 1101111110 1101011011 110001100 1111010 11100110101 111011011 11010111111 110010110 110100111 11111 11111111111 1101111100 11111111 111111111 11111111 111110101 11111100 10110011 10111111 11111111 11010010 111001110100 11111111 11111101111 1111000 11100101 1110010 110111111 1111010010 11011011 111111101 1001011001 1100010110 1110010 10010100 11101100 1111111110 1101001110 11011101 1101111 11000111110 111110000 111101101 11101100 110101 1110100 110011101 11001101 1111111111 1010100 110110100 1110100 1111111 111011 1010111101 11101100101 11101101 1111110111 111111101 100111100 11110010 111001 111011 111010100 11110010 1111111001 111110111 1000010010 110111111 110100101 1111101 11101100 1100100 1111111111000 1111101 110001001 10111011110 1101010110 110101101 1101110110 11011001 11011111111 11010111110 1000111111 1101010111 111011111110 1111101 110110010 110111101 11001010000 110111111 1111011101 111100111 11111101 11111111011 110101010 1100010010 11100111110 100010111 10110111010 1011010101 1101110001 1010110010 1101011110 1101011110 11011111 1110010111 111111010 1101111000 110111101 11011011100 1100111111 1111101010 100010101 1110100010 01111111 1111011010 111010010 11111100111 1101110101 011110101 111100111 1101111 11010011011 111111111010 100110111 110100111 111011101 0111111001 11011111 111001111 111001111 1111110101 1110010 11100100 110100100 100010011 101010110 111011111 10011110 11001111 110110110110 11101111 110101100 11111111 11 1111111011 1101 1111 110110100 01010111000 110110101 11010111 1111101111 1101111 10001011 111101111111 111110101101 11011101 111111111010 111110000 1011110111 1101111111 1101011101110 111111111101 1001111100 1111010010 110 1011011110 1110011111 110111100 1100111001111 1110010 110101111111 100111011 110010101 110110111 11001101 111110 1101001101 11011101 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 579
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 249
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; jeg, du, som, mig, det, at, fra, til, og, for, af, alle, min, er, n, i, r, dem are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words paa, fra, til, med, af, og, som, for, naar are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, n, d are repeated).

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