This is an analysis of the poem Den Hellige Anders that begins with:

Naar Vandringsmanden mellem Mark og Enge
Ad Landeveien gjennem Sjælland gaaer,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXbXcXX XXXXadXX XXeXXXdX XfXXgfhX XXehehXX XXdXddXX XXdXhXfX fXfXXXXX XXiXiXXX XXXXXcXX XbXXXjdd fXXXfXXX XdedXXbX khXXkhXg XXXXXXll XXdXXXXX XgXagXXX XXXXXfXX XXXXXXhh eXXXXXXX XXfXdXXX XXXjajXX XXXXXXbX XXfXfXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100010111 11001011 111111011 1111101 111111111 101011111 1100111110 110111101 11110110 10000110 111110111 1101110101 10011111 1101010101 111011101 110111101 111101111 1100110100 111010011 111110101 111111011 11111011 11111101 010100111 111010100 110111011 110101101 111010111 111010001 11011110 111001101 101101101 110101001 110110010 10110111 1101110101 0111111010 1111101010 1011011001 111111101 1111010011 11101111 100110101 101101111 11111100 101111110 111101101 1100010101 1101110011 1111010010 110110011 110111101 110101111 1111101101 11011111 11111011 111111101 110110011 110111111 110101100 11010110010 111111000 111101101 111111110 11101111 111111101 111111000 111011111 111101111 1101110011 1011110100 111111111 011011101 110111101 10111111 11011101 011111010 1010111 1111111 110111101 1101110111 101111 111011111 111011100 11111111 1111110111 110101111 11101110110 100111011 1101110001 100101010 1101110011 1101011101 110101111 1101011111 11011011 1111111100 11111101 11110110 011110110 1111101111 11111011 10011011 111101011 1111010100 101111101 11011111 111110111 1101111110 1111111010 111111101 111111111 11101111 10111001 11010011 1111011 01111011 11111001 11111101 101011011 1100110100 110111011 10111011 11011101 011111111 1001110111 1111001111 1111111 110111101 1101110001 11110110 1101110111 110101111 111111001 11111100 1011011101 111011100 01101111 11111111 111011101 11110111 10111101 100111011 11110110 0111011 111100110 11111001 11110011 11011111 11011111 110010110 1101010111 11111101 101110111 1111011111 11111111 111111001 111001101 111110100 1101111110 1101110011 110110011 011101101 110110101 111101111 1111111 11010111 1101001001 11110111 111101110 110111011 110110010 1111100111 11011001 11101111 1111001101 11011111 1100011101 101101111 1110011001 1101011101 11011101 1011011101 111110110 1011110101 11110101110 1011010100 111111010 110110110 11011011010 110101110 110111110 11011111 1101001111 101110110 1101011111 111110111 10011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 199
  • 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; de, den, han, og, hans, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, og, da, hans, han are repeated.

    The author used the same word han 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 nge, le, re, lger are repeated).

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