This is an analysis of the poem Jakob Og Hans Sønner that begins with:

I Sommersolglans glimted Jakobs Gaard
henover disblaa Kjær og Bavnehøje;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbcc XXXXXXX XdXXXXc XXXaXXX XeXXfXc XXXXgXX ahXhhXX XXXXXXX XiXXXXX jXXXXXc XkXXXXX cXXXXXX XkckXXX XdidXXX XXaXXee XXXXXXX XiXXXXX XXcXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX cdXXXXX XgXgXXX jXXXiXX bXbdXii XlXllXX XXXggmX XXXXXXX jdXXXXX XXXXXXX XiXXiXX XXXXXXX XXfXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100010101 100101110 1001101111 1111110101 01111101 11110111010 1101011110 11111110 1001111111 1010110 11111111 100101111 1101111010 1101010110 101111101 101101111 111000100 11010101 1101111101 11010101000 110011110 1111001100 110111110 1100010110 11011111 10101010111 11111101 1111111111 010101011 1101110111 1101011 11101011 0101011110 111011010 111101110 11010101 110101110 11011011101 111110111 110110101 110111101 110110111 110101111 11101111 110111111 1100011101 110111101 1101110100 1001011101 0111111 1101010101 1101011101 111101111 1101011111 1101011100 11110110 11011101110 110101111 1001011010 10101111 110101111 1010101010 110111111010 1101100101 100101111 110010110 1101011111 11101101 1110101010 1111111110 0111010100 1101011111 110001111 101110100 11101010 11110111 11111110 1110110010 110110100 10101110 110111010 1101110111 1110111101 11011111 11010100010 11001111 111111010 11011111 110111001 1101101110 11000101110 110100011 01110111 1111111 111010111 110111111 11111101 1101001101 110110111 110110111 11101111 11010110 1101110100 110101111 1111111 1101101010 11111100 11000101010 110110101 111101111 11010101100 11111111110 110101011 1101111111 11100111100 111101101 11111100 11011111010 110101110 1111111010 1111010111 1110111010 110110111 111101111 1111111101 111111110 111011100 111001111 1111000111 11011111 1110111 110101111 1110000101 11101111101 1101010111 111110110 110101110 111011100 110111101 1110111111 1111010110 1101111111 110111110 110101011 1111111 111011110 11101110 1101011110 110101111 1101011110 1111010111 111010111 11000111 1101011100 111101111 11101101 110101011 1111110110 1110100011 1110110110 111011010 01111101 1101000111 010111001 11011111 111110111 11111111 110000011 111011011 11010001 111101101 111101111 11011010 11101011101 1101111101 11010101000 1111110100 11011111010 11101011 110011111 1101011101 111111110 1101011101 110111101 1111011101 110101111 1111110101 110010110 101110111 1110011 1101010101 01001100 111111011 011111101 01010110000 0110111110 100111110 110101111 1001111010 111100110 101011100 101110111 1010110011 11010101110 101101111 1101111000 110111011 100110101 1111110111 111011100 1011111 110101101 1011011101 101111101 1100110111 1111110100 11000101100 1001011101 111111111 110011111 11101111 110101111 11110111110 1101011110 0101010100 111000011 11101111 1101011101 1101111101 11010111 110101100 111101010 101010100 1101111101 11101110 0111011100 110111100 111111010 111111111 11011111 11111111 11111111 1101111111 11111111010 1110111010 11010111010 1111010111 11001011010 1111000101 111111101 11001010 1110110010 11101100 1111010101 11111011 1101011110 1111111 1100011101 11111001 111110111 010110111 11111010 111111011 0101001111 11110010110 111101010 1011111 11111100 1010101010 1101011110 1101011100 1101011010 111111010 11111100010 001111111 00111111 1101110100 001111111 111100101 1111110100 111111111 1011110001 1111100 1111011101 1111111 110110110 110111000 1110111010 1011010101 1110111110 111111100 110111100 1100111010 1101011110 1101011101 110110111 111010101 111111111 1111111101 11101110 111111111 110110111 110001011 110101110 110110111 110111100 111010111 01110111110 11001110 1111100111 1110011000 110111011 110110111 11111011 110010111 1000011010 111111100 1101010110 1101110111 10011111 111110110 11010101000 110100011 11011111 101010101 1001010101 111011101 1110111010 1100111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 47
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 271
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 329
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, de, er, st, han, v, om, i, paa, gaar, her, saa, det, nu are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, han, i, her, nu, saa, du are repeated.

    The author used the same word men 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 je, ret, de, mmer, kker, vet, mmen, der, ngde, g are repeated).

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