This is an analysis of the poem Det Er En Gammel Sandhed, Ofte Prøvet that begins with:

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Det er en gammel Sandhed, ofte prøvet...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbXbXXXXXcXXXXXXXcXXXXXXdXdXXXeXXXXXXaXXfXXXXgXXXXccXXXXX XX XX XXghgcX XXb XaaXX Xd XX XX XX Xh XX XX XaXXXXhhXXXaaaaXaaXX Xi XXXXXXXXX XX XXX Xc XX XXaXX XXhbbhgXjX Xj XXXXXXbXXXXXXXXX XXXXhXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXX XbXXXXd XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 62,2,2,7,3,5,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,20,2,9,2,3,2,2,5,10,2,16,13,9,7,46,3,17,6,5,9,22,2,17,2,6,2,2,1,2,4,4,15,6,11,2,6,6,16,9,18,2,61,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,14,2,14,5,3,8,3,2,3,3,10,5,2,2,5,2,20,2,4,3,3,3,4,3,5,3,4,2,5,6,2,2,2,3,21,2,24,2,7,2,12,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 101101011 110100100 1100011101 1110011101 1101111110 110111011 101111110 110111111 110100111 11011111 101101001 111110111 1100111110 1101111101 110111100 110101101 111100010 0111010101 1101101111 110111010 110011100 11111101 111110100 1100010101 11110011110 111011110 1111011110 1101110111 1100100010 11111001 1111100110 1111010101 1111101110 1111111111 11111101 111110011 111001100 1111110111 1100011100 11111111 11111011 1011001 11110110 101101010 101111011 11110010 111001010 111011011 110101010 111111101 10111111 111101111 00101111 10011111 101100100 11011110 1110111 1110111 11111111 110111101 1101110001 10000 11101111 1 100 10000 111011 111110011 111101 01111101 11101101 0111111 1 111010111 111110011 10000 1111111 11111001 11111111 10101011 1 10111010 10000 1011110 1 10111001 10000 1101111 1 11111011 10000 1101110 1 10100110 10000 10100111 101101010 111011110 111001101 111010001 010011111 001011011 0011011 101011101 001011010 00111001 111011011 101110001 1110110 111101 11101011 1111011 110011000 111101101 1 110111 10000 11 01111110 001111110 11111000 0011101 001011111 11101101 11100110 1 10101 10000 11 101011010 1 10111111 10000 11101110 1 10111011 10111101 110110011 100110111 10000 1111111 101101101 110001101 110111111 1001000101 11010101 101101010 1100011101 111011010 1 11101101 10000 10010100 11101110 11011000 11010011 101010110 10111011 110110111 110101100 11111110 11011110 1010110111 11111111 111011 110111110 110101110 1 1111011010 110001100010 1011111 111110111 111100110 111111101 1111111 111100111 11010100 11110110 001010010110 111 10000 11111 11101100 110100111 11111110 11010111 1111100010 110110111 100111 1 1110 11110011 110011110 1111110110 110111111 1110011010 10000 1101100111 111111010100 011111001 01111100 1100111100 1101111100 110011101 11011110 0011111 11111111 110110110 10111001100 1110111 10101101011 01111011 0111010 1110010111 1111111 1000111011 1100111111 1000101111 1010100111 101111111 1101111 0011011000 111101011 101111011 1111011110 1110110010 110000 11000 1100011001 1001101001 1111111001 111100011 11000101 111101010 0111011100 10011100 11011111 11010111 11110100 11010110 11111010 1100001110 1 110110101 110101 10000 100 11111111 1111111100 111011011010 11111101 111110001 101110010 11001111 110011111 11110101 1011101110 1110010001 11001100 110110 11011000010 1111010010 1 1110111000 11011111 111100111 110111111 11111111 10000 1111111101 011010011 101101101 1101111011 1 111110100 111011100 100001110 1101111 110011010 110011110 111111111 11110111 10000 11101110 1010011110 10111011110 100101100 111011001 11001000 101110101 10110001 101110010 111101000 111001101 011111101 110111111 111011110 1111101010 11011101 1111111011 11100001101 1111110 110111101 1000011101 1 110011 10000 11110 1011001110 110001011 01110011 111101111 1100100001 1111101100 11111100 101111 110100110 001010011011 11011111111 111100011 1101110100 110101010 110111010 1 111011010 10000 1101001111 11110111 110011110 11011111 1011101110 1 11010 10000 10100 11000 1 1011 10000 1101111110 110111101 11011000 1 110111110 11011110 1100011010 10000 101011110 111011001 101111001 1110101111 11001110 11010010 1100001111 111001100 1111100001 1110011 1111001110 11110001 1110011010 1100011111 1 1111010110 1110111 11111111 110010111 1011010 10000 101010011 1011011001 001110000 1110110100 11111010 11110111 11111110 111111110 111011100 01011 1 1010 10000 010111000 111111110 11111100 110110100 100100101 1 11011111 11000011110 11111110 001110011 11111111 10000 10010101 110011000 11000101 0101111111 10111111 110001100 100111011 11000111 001101111 11111001 01101100 0111011110 11010110 1101111110 111001111 1 111101110 11100111 11111011 111111111 1100101111 1110110110 1011010110 11111110 10000 11111010 11101110 1011001110 11011011 10011101 1100011100 101110110 111111001 10101101 01110110 10010111 111010010 1110111110 111101101 111100111 110011100 11111111010 1 101100110 10000 111101001 11111101 11111101 111001110 110100100 11111011 11111111 111010110 0100101000 11001111 11111101 111101101 1111111001 011101100 110111110 1101111010 110101110 11101011110 110110100 110111101 1101111101 1111011 111111101 110111111 1100101001 10011111 111101100 1101100001 110101000 1100110101 11101110011 11111000 110111 111010111 111111110 010110110 1101101 110110110 111100100 100101101 101010100 01011110 11111010010 11010010110 111110110010 1101111 100101110 1000110100 101111111 11111100 010010110 1111000110 1110111110 11011101 1111011010 111101011 1101101111 1111111110 1111001111 111111111110 100 11111101 11011101 111111010 1111111 1111111 111101110 1111111 11011101 111111111 1111111 1110101 11110111 11110111 11111101 11011110 11111110 1100111 110101000 111111111 11011100 111001 1111011 11100111 1110101 11001101 11110100 1111011 11000111 1101111 11110111 11110011 11001101 11110011 11111111 1101111 1101111 1101011 110111 11001110 11111101 11011101 111111010 10000 111111111 11011111 11101011110 111001101110 11111011001 101100111 111111110 111111111 11100111 101000110 111111100 1110011111 1101101000 1 1101111000 10000 111111100 11010111 110110100 11111010 110100111 11111 11011011 1110110111 111011100 100111101 111101101 1111111111 11101111 1 11010111 11110111 111111011 11101101 10000 1110111 1010101101 1 1111011011 1101111 11111100 111100101 110111100 11110101 11101110 10000 1110111101 11111111 1 1111 10000 1111 1101110011 1 1101111 111100111 10000 11111001 1111110111 101011110 1111101010 1110111011 110100111 101111011 11011101010 1111 1 111 111111111110 11101111 1111111111 10000 01011101 1 11010111 10000 100111011 111100101 100100001 11010111 1 1110101101 10000 110010110 1100010111 11110111 11011011 1101100010 1101111 1101111 11111100 11101001 10111001000 110111111 11111011 110011100 1011101 1010101111 10100111010 1101110101 111111001 1101111001 1 111011111 10000 10011111 1111110110 1011010 1 111111010 110101111 10000 10110100001 110110010 1 111011111 110101011 10000 1111111001 11101111110 110111101 1 101100111 110101101 10000 11101101111 110100101 11111111 101110111 1 01111111 11011001 10000 110110011 11111111 101011 1 10 10000 11111 011100111 11111011 101110101 1 1110010111 1101111 11110110 1110111001 11011011111 10000 110100111 1 111101110 10000 0101 1 10110 1110101111 10000 101000110100 111110101 101010111 1101010010 111101110 110111110 111111010 1100000010 101001010 100111111 111001101 1111111 11101100 11011101 110101111 1011111 111101101 110101110 110101001 10110111 1 11110 10000 111 11111011 11100111 1011111 11111111 111101101 110101110 101111100 110111111100 110011010 101111110 110110110 11111011010 110111000 11011111 1110110111 1011100010 11001011110 0101111101 10111111 01011111 11010111 110101111 1 1111111110 10000 1111011000 1101110101 111111011 100111111 11001101 1111111011 1 1111011010 10000 111011110 11101111 11001011 11101111 1110011001 01010111 11111111 10110001 111010110 1111111 11110111 1 111101 10000 11110110 1101111 11011101 10010111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 105
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 883
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; jeg, er, her, fra, og, det, man, du, hans, for, i, han, hvordan, de, r, at, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, her, det, fordi, n, kan, du, og, hans, for, i, enten, de, at, da, af, jeg are repeated.

    The author used the same word om 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 k, l, d, st, ngde, r, re, res, rker, nder, de, nger, nge are repeated).

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