This is an analysis of the poem Det Banker Paa Døren. Kom Ind! that begins with:

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Det banker paa Døren. Kom ind!...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX Xa XXb XXX XX XXX XXcdX XXeXX XXcXXfdXXgXbXXhXX XXXgXXXcXdXiX XgXXjXXee Xcc XgXXXXXXXXXXdXXXXbXXXXX Xdede XXIXXXg XXXXkjj XXIXXXXfXXX XX XhXdd XX XdXXXXXX XXc XX XXXdXggXXXXggdXXXXXXXXXX XXllaX XXXgddX XXXXXXXXXXXaXXk XXXXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,3,3,2,3,5,5,17,13,9,3,23,5,7,7,11,2,5,2,8,3,2,24,6,7,15,8,7,5,6,14,2,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000 1101111 1 11 1000 10011010110 11110111 1 01010101 1111011 1000 1101 1 10111 110101111 1000 1100111010111 011110011 0101111100 01110101100 1 1111111 1011111 1111110101 101111111 1000 11111110100 11010001111 1110111111 1111111 111111101 11110101110 1111011100 10111011000 10101111 111011101 1111011011 10111111 1100111 11011111 111011010 1101011000 1 1011111 1101101110 110011101 11111111 10111110 11110110010 0111011101 11110011 1111111110 111000010 111111011 1101101111 1000 110111001 11101111001 111100111 11011011011 110110111 111111011 111111010 10111010 1 11111001 10111101 1000 110101111 111101101 111110010 111100111 011001011 1111111 1111011010 110110110 1101111 1101001101 1111100 111101110 1101111111 111000111 111101110 11011111 1101101001 110111111 110100101 111111101 111111101 101101101 1 1110101110 110101011 1110111010 11101111 1000 11111011 111101111 11111111 1101100110 11111100 1111101101 1 1111110101 111100111 11010111 111111 111011111 111111 1000 11111011 111101111 111111111 1100100101 101011010110 1101001010 100101001 110110101 01111101 0101110111 1 11110111101 1000 1100111011 10111111010 110101110 11111100110 1 111010100 1000 1101111110 1111110110 1111101110 10111110110 110100001010 110100011 1101011100 1 1100011110 111110111 1000 11010 1 111 011011101 110101100 101111001 10011011001 11001011001 110111101 11011111 11111101 1011111001 111111011 01111101 1101011010 11010010100 10111111111 11111111 111011111 1001010101 111111011 11111110010 1100001110 111101111 10011111 1000 1101100110 111111110 11011111110 11101001101 11111011101 1 10110111 1110011101 110101100 10111011110 111011010 10111100110 1000 1111011101 1111110010 11110101 11111111111 11010101 1011100111 11011111 1111011110 11111111 110001100 110011111 1110110010 1111101101 10011111 1 10111111 111111101 11101111 101100110 1110111011 1110110111 100111011 1000 111011100 1111110 11010010 11011000 10111011000 11110111 1 111111010 101101101 101111010 11111101 1000 10111101 1100011 11011101 110011101 011001 1 11 10111010 1101101000 110011111 110110101 1100111011 111101101 11110111 0101110111 110100011 11111011110 0111011111 1110010001 1000 1111111010 1 01010101 101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 272
  • 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; dig, jeg, snart, det, mod, og, er, de, du, daarlig, var, man, til are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, og, om, mod, jeg, de, var, men are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rdig, rk, rt, re, der are repeated).

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