This is an analysis of the poem En Værdig Mand Er Død! I Kraftig Alder that begins with:

Chor af de Efterlevende
En værdig Mand er død! I kraftig Alder...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXbaXXXXXXc XXXddXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXfXX XX XXXXXXXXXXa XXX XgX Xga XXX XXXXa XXXX XX XXXXXXXXXhgXX XX XX XX Xe XX XgXXa XXXXXiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXgXXjXiXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaaaXX XX XX XhXXXXXXXXXXeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,39,2,11,3,3,3,3,5,4,2,13,2,2,2,2,2,5,78,2,2,34,4,11,3,2,4,14,2,9,3,4,2,8,7,2,3,2,3,3,3,3,4,9,8,3,3,2,19,8,5,8,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101000 1110111010 111111011 11111110 1011011001 110101110 111110111 01111101100 1100111111 1111010011 110111010 11111111 1010110100 1 1101110 11000101100 11101 1101111 1011000 111111 1101110 1101110 111101100 110111110 11100011110 110111 100111110 111111111 1100111111 1101101 1100011 11110100100 11101101 11101110010 101101111111 1011100 111110 1111101110 11011100100 111111111 11111111 11111 110111100 111111100 111110 110110111 111111 1111011100 111111111 11110111 111111 11110100 110 11110110110 1 1101100110 111101110 1111100 11010101110 110011 1101011110 11111111010 1111111010 11110111110 1111111110 110 1111100 1101001111000 1 1011110 1011 110 1111110 110100 1 10100 1111111110 110 1111110 111110110 1001011110 111100 1 11110 111111111 1111111100 110 1011 1 101011 111110110 11111 110111110 1101100100 1101110011 11001 100111 111110011 1111010 11011111100 101001001 110 11111110 1 11 110 0111 1 110011111 110 1101111111 1 1011110 110110 111110111 0101101110 110 1101110 1101111110 11111 1101111100 010011001 111100 100111011 111011001 11111 1101011111 11111 101111101 111101 1101110011 01110011 111110101 110101 1101110100 1100110110 110110010 10011101100 110111110 1111110 11001110010 111110 1011101110 111101 110111010 111101 111101111 0111011001 011010010 1101110100 1101001101 11001011 011010 110110 1110011111 110011 111111101 11011 1111011 1111010011 110111111 100111100 101010 1101111010 1101111100 1110011000 111101100 101000110 1111011100 1101010001 1101011101 110111011 11110111010 1111010101 11000101000 1001110100 011101010 11010101100 1111001010 111011111 11111000110 1011011100 1110110111 111110111 111000 111111001 11111111010 1101111010 10111101100 1101011110 11111011010 1101110 1101011 11110001110 1 11111111 110 100 1 1011111 11111 111101 111111101 1111110001 101111111 1111010 1111101100 111100111 110110111 111110 1110110011 110111101 11111110 1111110 1110100110 110110 111111111 11111101010 1110111000 11111110 101110 1100010111 1110111110 11100 110111 11110110010 1111011111 11011101100 111111011 111011 11101110 1111110111 110 11111 011101011 11111011 1 1111110 111111010 111010 11100101100 1111010 1111010 1101000 11010010000 111111 1110011111 110 1111101111 1111100 1 110111111 110 10111101000 1101110111 1101110 1 101110 1111000 1111111000 1101010 1001111110 1111000 11001100100 11111 110110 11110110 110111 11100111 1111100111 110 1111011111 1 1011110 11111101110 1111110 11110001010 100111 11011101000 111110 1111101110 110 110111 1111001101 1 111111 111101 1101011111 110 111101 1 1101 1110010 110111000 1101000 11100110100 1101111110 111101010 110 11111 11110001110 11011010 1010111010 111111 111011100 1 111111111 110 1000110111 011101111 1 111101111 110 111100111 11000111 1 1111100 1101111111 110 101000 111101111 1 1010001011 1011001110 110 11011111010 01111 11111111000 1 1011010101 110110 1111110010 1001100 10111101110 111110100 111111 11111 110 1011010001 1111000 01001111010 0111100 11111111100 111110 1110110010 1 111111011 1101 110 110 1111111010 1 11111 110 0111 010101 11101 111111101 1101111010 1101010001 110111 1111111100 11001111000 1111010 111101010 111111110 1110 1011111 111110 100111011 11111 11001101 1 100110 11100111010 1111101110 11011110 111100011 111011111 1111101100 110 110111 1000110 1111110 1101110101 1 1111111 11110 1110111 11111110010 11111011111 1111101101 101111101 110 1011110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 53
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 446
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; en, og, jeg, sig, dig, til, du, ham, re, det, f, hvor, mit are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, jeg, den, du, da, at, med, om, hvor are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ie, jeg, rker, peder, nner, ret, den, nger, re, lge, ster, a, vet, rer, lger are repeated).

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

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