This is an analysis of the poem De Lystige Tiggere that begins with:

En Nat da Løv lig Flagermus
nedsejled over Gaard og Grus...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXaXXbXXcXc ddXeXXbXbXXcXc XfXfXgXgE XXXXhhhE XiieXXiE XjXeXXXE XXheXjXE XXkXkXXlk XXfhX XghX XXXX XhXX kXXX XchX XcXcXXXeX XXXhX lXXX eXeX kXXX dXdX XXXX XlXX XXXXX XXdX XXXdXXXKX hXkX XXkX hhXX XhkX XcdXXXKX XXmXXmX XXXXXX XXXXX XkdX XhXX ddXX eXeX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,9,8,8,8,8,9,5,4,4,4,4,4,9,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,9,4,4,4,4,8,7,6,5,4,4,4,4,9,8,10,4,4,10,9,9,9,4,4,4,8,15,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111100 10010111 110001 11011101 11011111 111101 11110100 11101 110111 11111 110110 010101 110110 1101 11110111 1110111 11101 1110111 1111111 11111 11111101 111101 11011101 110011 111111 11011 110110 11111 1 1110111 1111111 11111 111101 1111111 111111 11101111 101011 1101 1110011 111110 101101 111101 1111111 1111101 101011 1001111 1101010 1111010 01010 1101010 110110 111110 101011 1110111 111111 1111111 11101 0111111 11111111 1110011 101011 1110101 1111101 11111111 111001 111111 111011 111101 101011 1 1101111 110111 111011 111101 11001101 11011 1000011 11111 1 10111111011 1101111001 110111111111 1101101110 111101101 11010110011 1111111111 1111011110 11111011011 110111001 11011011011 111111110 1111100110 11111111100 1111111010 111101110 11111010111 11111011111 11011011111 11111110 1101111110 1111111111 111011011 111111110 1 11011101 1111110 1101111 111111 10110111 1110101 1111111 1111111 1 101111111 111101010 11101111 1110111100 11011111 1111011 1111110110 11011111 110111111 11101111 11011011 10111011 11110111 11110110 11011011 11110110 1101111 11110100 1011111 1100010 11110111 1110011 1111101 11111011 11010010 11011011 11101111 01111 1 11011111 11011111 11011110 11011110 11111 1111011 11011101 1101110 1 1101101 1001111 11110111 111110 111110 111110 10101111 1101110 111111 111111 110111 111110 11111101 11111111 11010111 111110 01110101 1111111 1111110 1101110 11010110 111111 100111 011110 1111110 1111101 1101111 111110 111110 111110 10101111 1101110 1 1111111 1011111 1101111 1101 1111111 1111 11111111 1110100 1111001 11010 10110001 11011 1 1111111 111110 10111111 111110 11011100 110110111 1110111 1101110 110111111 11111111 11001011 1111110 1101111 11010111 1110111011 1111110 1100101111 11011011011 110111111 1111110 1 11110101 1011000 1111111 1101010 111111 110110 1101011 11110 1101111 1111110 1111111 110110 111111 1110110 11111101 1101010 1 11111100 1101100 1011111 111010 11111110 1111000 1110 111 111100 111111111 111111 1111111 110111 1111111 11111 10111101 111111 1 11010101 110110 11111100 111111 1100111 111100 1111101 100111 1111 11010111 11011 1111101 11110 11010101 11111 11011111 110100 1111 11111100 11011 1111111 11111 1111111 1101110 11111111 110101 1111 1 1010111 1111111 11011101 111011 111111 1101111 111111010 1101111 11011101 1001111 1111111 1100111 11011111 1101111 11111100 111111 11011101 1111111 111111 1101111 0111111 1111111 11011101 0101111 111111 1101111 11011111 111111 1 11111101 11111100 11011 111111 1111101 11110 1111111 11011 1111111 110110 111111 11101 111111 111010 1 1111111 1011101 111111 111101 1111110 1001101 10011100 111111 10101010 101111 1111110 101011 10101110 101111 1011110 111011 1110101 101111 111001 11110 1001100 1011111 1111010 1110111 11110 1111101 111011 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 58
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 353
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, jeg, min, ved, en, og, han, n, havde, hun, k, vi, med, v, hans, det, alt, sidste, er, hvad, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, dette, n, jeg, en, saa, med, sing, der, hans, dels, lad, hvad, skaal are repeated.

    The author used the same word vi 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 g, s, jte, le, jlandmand, k, det are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words bom, soldat, jlandmand, resten, nat, det at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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