This is an analysis of the poem Uglerne I Ellemosen that begins with:

Nys skreg jeg ud min Glædes Raserie,
Og tømte Salighedens Pose...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbaXcXXXbXdXXdXXefXXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdeXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXddXXgXXhhXXXdiid aXaaXXXcbjjXXXXXjbXXXXXXXXXXXX XeeaXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 77,30,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1110001 110001 11011110101 1110011101 11001110 111011110 11010010 1111100010 01100100100 11011101 011111110 1101111 111111111 110011000 100111011 0111010110 1110010111 11111001010 111110111 11011111 01110111000 1111011101 111101101 111000100 011101101000 10110101011 11111110 1111011 10011111 0111111010 11111001 0111000100 111011 111001 111011 1111111 1111110111 1110111001 111101100 111101111 110011100 1111110001 111110111 111 0110011110 1110101 0111011000 101111101 100111111 11010111111 1100100 1101110 11100011 1101111100 100101010 111111 0011011101110 11011111 11110001 11001010 110011111 1111010101 10001101110 11101010 11111110 1101111111 11010110010 1111101110 110100100011 1111101110 111101 1100 111100111 11010101010 100011100110 110111111001 1110110111 011100100 0101110111 01011111 1000011101 11001111111 110111111 111111010 1101110101 111111111 111101101 01011100 111101 1001110111 1111100101 1101101111100 1100111101 1101111 111111011 1111111111110 1011111 110111111 111111 11111111 111100111000 111110100 11001001 111110111 1111011101 1111001 11011111100 111011011 111111111 1111010111 1110110 10111110100 111011010 1110111 11011110101 110110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1402
  • Average number of words per stanza: 273
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; end, meer, mine, hvor, en, man, kan, min, og, alskens are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, en, og, skal are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nne, de are repeated).

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