This is an analysis of the poem Adelaide Grevinde Af Bombelles that begins with:

De samle sig, lig underfulde Drømme,
De rige Minder fra en svunden Vaar,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXa XXXXXXbb XcXcXXXX dXdeXeaX fafaXXXX XXXXXaXX XXXcXcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111001 011011101 11111101 1101010001 1100110011 1100011101 01111110 1110101100 111101111 111101000 110111111 11011111 1100011110 010011111 111011001 111110101 111111110 1111011 11111011 1101111 11111101 011101101 1110010101 111011101 111111111 101110101 011111011 110001001 101111101 1101100001 1111111 1100110111 11110111010 010110011 11010011110 11010011 11011111000 11100101 10110111 1101110001 110100001 1110010101 110111101 101010011 11010111 110101111 1111111001 1101011 1111101 1010110 11101111 111011100 11011111 111100011 110110010 110111111 111111111 11111111 110110110 111110001 110101110 110111111 11011101110 01011100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nnes, nge are repeated).

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