This is an analysis of the poem Charlottenlund that begins with:

Digteren.
Saa Dette kaldes i Skoven at gaae?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXX XXXX XbcX dXdX XXeX XXXX XXXX cXcf aXXX gXgX hXXi EXX EXX XcX XXX CXXbX cXX XXX EX EX Xb Xh CX EjXX XXk bXk XXXXX XXX XXf XXX XjX XhXXX XXX XXX XlXlX XXXb XXXX gmXmX ninX XXXX XXXX g XX Xg XX hXegX hXXi XhXX XXXX aXXXd XXaX gXXX XXXgX XXgX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,5,3,3,2,2,2,2,2,4,3,3,5,3,3,3,3,5,3,3,5,4,4,5,4,4,4,1,2,2,2,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,5,4,5,2,2,3,2,3,5,4,4,5,5,5,5,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 111011011 011101 1101111011 110110 10111 1011010 10110001 0110010 1110111 101100 1101011 1101100 1111100 1111011 1110101 110110 11101110 1110110 1101111101 1101010110 0101101111 1111101 1111011001 11111011 110110001 111010010 11111001 1110010110 110011111 111110 11111001 111001110 11001111 1101011 11011101 11011 111101101 110100 1010111 110110 111011010 101100 11011111 1110111 1101111 101000 110111011 11000100 110 1011111 11111 11010 110001110 10001011 11 111100101 111110010 110 1111101 1000110 11 11110011 110101 110111111 11111111 1101 100101111 111010 11 1101011 111100 110 1110111101 11010 1001011 11 11111111 110 1111111 11 111101111 110 1011111 110110101 1011101 10 11111011010 1101111 10 1111011 1111011 10000 101111110 100110 1110110101 1101110 1 11110111 11101 10000 1111101 11011 1 1111111 011001 10000 10111101 100011 1 101010101 00101110 1111111 10111 11000 1111111 11111110000 1 0111101 1101100 11100 11101100 11110001 10111101 1111111 111111011 1011000 1111101 1010110 010111011 1101000 10111100 10110000 1100 1101011111 1010010 100011001 111110010110 10110111 11010110 110110111 1101110 101110111 1101001 11011011 101111 1111101 11001110 11011111011 111110 1101111 10 1111110 1000 11001111 10 1111001 01001 110111000 01011 11011111 10101100 1101010111 10110100 11011111 11110010 11011111 1111101 11111111 111001010 10110111 1101111 100100101 1111011 11 1101101000 1011111 1001101101 110111 11011111 11111001 111011011 110101 110110011 1101101 110111110 11111011 1001 1110111 1111101 1111111 111101 110101101 1111110 10110111 11101110 11 111110001 110111 110101111 101111 1111111111 111011010 1111101 10111010 11000 11011101 110101 10111001 11111111 110 1111111 11 1101111111 10 111111001 11101111 11111111 1111110 10 1110111101 1101100 1100 10110111 111110 110110100 110110 11101101 1111011 10110111111 10111111 110111011 11011110 11101011 111011100 110 10010011 1111000 110111101 11101100 11 11001011010 11111110 111111111 111111010 11100 11010101 110111 111011111111 11111111111 100 100100110 10111110 11111100 1111010 1000 11011111 110111 11110111 11001111 10111101 11111 11011101 111011 111111011 101011100 110111101 111110110 110001101 11001011 1110001001 101101 110101101 1101110 11001011 1111101 111011101 11101110 111111110 11000110 1101101 1011010 110010101 101110110 10111111 10001110 11111111 11101010 1001111 10101111 111111111 111111111 11011101 1111010 11010111 111100 110101111 01011011 1100100101 11111101 0101011001 111010110 11111100 1000010 11011011 10110111 110110011 1111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 83
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 309
  • 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; for, den, de, det, og, kommer, hid, jeg, paa, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words man, o, med, og, i, en, kommer are repeated.

    The author used the same words hver, en, den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words re, ie at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase stergade connects the lines.

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  • summary of Charlottenlund;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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