This is an analysis of the poem Væddeløbet I Det Lave that begins with:

Tak for den Tilskrivt, som din Skiærts
I respektive Svar paa Vers...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXXXXbXcXXXXXdXXe eXXXXXXXXXffXXXXgXgXXXXXXhXXXXiXXXXXXXXX jXXjXXaXgXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXkjXlljXXXXmmX inXXXilXXXiiliXXXXXXXXiiXXXlXXgXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXlXXnXXoXXmXoXiXX XkXmkXXdXXXoXXXXXXXXoXX XoXeXXlXXnXXXkXfiXXXXXXXXXkgXihhXlloXXooolXXb XXXXXXXXXXXXXoX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,40,37,67,23,45,49,17,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111 1100111 111101010 1111011 1001111 110011010 11111100 11100111 11111010 10010101 1111110 111101 1111001 111100000 1111101 111111 11111000 1111110 111101 110100 11010111 1110101 1101111 1111011 1110011 1101001 111101 10001101 1111111 1111111 11011110 111001110 1000001 11011101 1111110 1101111 1111101 1101111 011111101 11011111 11000001 11011110 111110 1111111 1110110 111110 11111111 11101001 1110010 111011 1111000 11011110 11111110 1101010 1111111 1011111 1101101 11101010 1111101 11011111 110111 1111110 1110111 100101100 11011110 1111111 1001111 1001111 111001 1101001 1101111 11000111 11111001 10110111 0111011 11011110 10111110 1111101 11010001 01111001 11001100 10111111 1111111 1111111 1011111 1111100 1100011 1101111 1110011 11010001 1111111 11001111 11000100 11010111 1101111 01111001 1110101 1001111 1101101 11111110 1111110 1110110 111101 1101001 11101110 1111101 10010101 1100101 111000 110111010 11001010 111111 11111110 11111100 111111 110011000 110000110 1101011 111111 11100111 11110100 1111110 110001110 1111101 11101000 1110111 11101111 1111111 111111 1111111 111110 111010 11011111 1110111 11111111 1000100 1101111 11011000 1101100 11001011 1111100 11101000 111111010 1010001 11000101 110011010 10111011 110101110 1101100 111101100 11111101 1001001 11011101 1101110 111010 1101111 11010111 11110100 1101111 11010001 10111110 111111 1110100 10100010 11001000 1111111 1111011 1011111 110001 11111111 1111111 1111010 101100 111111 1110000 11001000 1110100 1110111 10110110 11111000 11001100 1110100 11011111 10111101 110101110 11111110 1111111 1111111 11000111 10011111100 11100010 1100111 1110111 10010011 11001111 111111 110111110 111101110 10010010 111111100 110001100 110111 11111010 1101110 11010111 11011110 11010000 1101100 1101100 11010000 11101101 1110011 111111 1111111 111110010 101101110 1111111 11010111 11010010 11011101 1101011 11101100 11100111 11001101 11111 111011 1111011 1101111 11011101 1111011 1101111 11110 111111 1100010 11100111 1100111 111001 1000101 11100111 1101111 11011101 11001100 1111111 11011100 11011110 11111100 1111111 11011101 11111010 11110111 110110000 11110000 11101000 1010110 11011101 11011110 11110101 11010010 1011101 01101111 1111101 1101011 1110010 11111001 1111111 111111 11111000 11110001 11110111 11010111 11110111 11110111 1111111 11010011 11111010 110111000 1110100 1111101 111101110 11111110 11010100 1111110 111111 1111111 1001011 1101001 11011110 11101011 1111100 111011 111100010 1111011 1111101 110111110 1111011 11100111 111001 1111111 11100110 101111 110101110 11111111 1111111 11000101 11111101 110111 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1056
  • Average number of words per stanza: 203
  • Amount of lines: 307
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; h, for, alt, d, tak, og, i, herr, som, at are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words tak, og, i are repeated.

    The author used the same words tak, saa 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, g, ier, gtige, re, s, rste, n are repeated).

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