This is an analysis of the poem Vor Frues Fald that begins with:

Da jeg mig ei befinder vel
Paa Hulbyveien ned til Hel,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXX XXbcXXXXXXXXXXddXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXcXdXdXX XeeXXddXXaXaXXdXXXXXXX d XXXXccXXXXfXXXXXXXXgXX Xc aaggXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXhee XXXfXfXdXXaXXaXXXXXXXggXXX XeXbgeXXbXXXXXdXeXXXXbbXXhXXiXXjdddXXXhccXXXeXXXXXXjXXXXXXXXXXXXXX gXXaXXXXXXXXXXXcXdXXkXXXk XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,23,16,22,1,22,2,23,26,66,25,43,44,28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111001 1100111 1111110 111010 11011001 1111111 11110111 11111100 11111111 1111101 1001101 1110111 110101 1110100 1110001 11011101 11010101 111101100 1111111 1011111 1111100 1010111 1111111 10011001 11011111 11110111 1111111 11111110 111111010 11111011 11110111 1111101 1101110 10011110 11000010 111101 1011011 11111110 11110010 110011111 11111101 1111111 11011111 11010011 1110111 1011111 11011101 100010110 11110101 110111010 11111111 1111101 1111111 11011111 1100011 1110011 01111111 11111110 11110110 1001111 11111100 1101111 10000110 11011011 1111101 1110101 11111110 1001111 11111110 1101111 1101101 1111101 111011 1101011 11010 1111100 111111 111110 11001000 11110101 11011011 10001000 1111011 110111 111111 11110110 110100 11011 11110111 11110110 111111 1101011 11001100 1100110 1101111 111111 110010 111100 1001011 111010 1101101 11111111 1101101 11000100 10011111 1010101 111111 1111100 1101111 11101110 11101100 11111011 11111111 111011 1101001 11011 1111101 11111101 1110100 110111111 1111111 101110 11110111 101100 101100 1100111 10111100 110011001 1101010 11101010 11111110 111111 1000111 110001 1101111 11010111 110100010 1111111 111011 11100111 11110010 110111110 11011110 11111011 1111111 1101111 1110111 1011011 111111 11101 1110001 11011101 11110111 1111111 10010111 0111100 1101101 11110110 111001 11111101 11011100 11110100 11111010 11111000 11010101 11011101 1111011 11100 1111111 11011011 11110 110100110 110101100 111011 10001100 1101011 1110111 1111100 110011 1111111 011101110 11111110 0111110 11011101 11111000 1110111 11010111 11001101 11110111 1111011 11110110 111100110 110111110 100111010 111110 110101010 0111111 110111 0111110 11010111 1101111 111101100 11101110 1111111 110111 11110111 01000100 1111101 11101100 1111111 11111101 110101100 111 11100 11010111 1011011111 1111111 1010011 1111111 1111111 11101110 1100100 1110010 11001110 111001010 11111111 11110001 11101111 10101000 101111 101100 1110100 11111111 10010111 11101111 1101100 11011100 11111 0101101 1101111 1101111 1111111 111001 1111101 1101111 100100110 11111 11000100 1111010 11111111 11110111 11111111 111111 10110111 110101110 11011101 1100010 1101110 011111 1111110 11010111 1111111 0111111 1110100 1110111 1101001 111100010 11111000 11011100 110111110 110010010 1100011 01111000 11110111 11111101 11101010 11010101 1110111 11001100 1100101 1011100 11000101 110111 110111110 11011110 11110100 111111 1001101 11011100 1111011 11100111 1011111 101111 100101100 1111101 1111011 0101111 1111101 11111110 111101010 11110010 1111111 11110001 1110101 11110011 1100011 1101110 1111101 11111100 111100 11111110 1000111 11011000 10111110 110101110 111111010 1011110 111111 11010010 101101110 11111010 11110010 11011011 11110101 11010100 1110111 11110111 1111011 11111100100 10111010 1100111 11010110 110011 1101101 11111111 11110111 1011111 11011001 100110010 11111010 11101110 110110011 1111111 11111111 1111101 11101111 01111000 1111101 11101101 1110110 11010011 11101111 1101110 11101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
  • Average number of words per stanza: 156
  • Amount of lines: 356
  • 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; og, af, at, som, jeg, saa, hvem, er, efter, om, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words af, og, o, har, jeg, min, paa, saa, i, om are repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg 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 se, ndig, nger, ver, k, r, rst, tter, rhed, re are repeated).

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