This is an analysis of the poem Jens Vejmand that begins with:

Hvem sidder der bag Skjærmen
med Klude om sin Haand,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXX bXXXXbXb XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXaXX XXXXXbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 11111 11011 111111 101110 11111 110110 01111 1100110 1101 11101 101010 101110 1111 110110 11001 1100110 11011 110110 11111 101110 111111 11111 110111 110010 110111 11001 11110 1101000 11011 101110 1101010 111111 11001 1111110 11101 111110 11101 0111010 111000 1111000 11011 111110 110001 101110 111111 111111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; paany, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word med is repeated.

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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