This is an analysis of the poem See Saa! Nu Er Vi Her Tilbage that begins with:

Mephistopheles
See saa! Nu er vi her tilbage....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXb Xb XXXXXXXXc XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXc XX XXXddXXXX XXX XXX XXXXX XXeXcXXXeeXeXXXXXX XX XdXXXXXXXXXXfXfaXXXggXXXXXX XaaXea XXXXX XXXXX XXeeX eedXX XhhXXXXXX XiiXXXXXXgXX XX XdXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,2,9,19,2,9,3,3,5,18,2,27,6,5,5,5,5,9,12,2,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10000 11101010 11100111 101111 1 11110111 110111111 10000 111111111 1 1100111 111001111 111111011 111011101 110111101 11111010 1101101101 10111111 10000 101111111 11101101 010010111 11100110 11011111 11011001110 111111111110 110101110 1111011101 11101011 111111111 011111011 1111110100 1111010110 1101010100 1111010100 1100101110 10110111 1 101101110 10000 1111111 11101001 11111101 110100001 1111111 11101101 1110110111 1111101000 1 110111111 1111000110 10000 11110111 1011111 1 1110101111 1101101111 001100010 11010 10000 1101 111111011 111111000 110111101 1100011 1011001001 111011011 111111101 11101101101 1011111 1111111 11011110100 111100101 1110111001 1001110100 110111101 11011011 1 10110 10000 1101 11111111 101001000 10100010 1110111101 111000101 101101000 101000100 111101100 1011001000 1100011100 1101111110 11101001 1110011110 11111101 11111010 1011011001 110111111 111100111 110110111 101101101 11011111 100101101 11110111 011100111 111010101 11100 101 101 1010111 1011101 1011101 101 101 111101 0010111 11111 111 101 10111000 11100110 11111 111 111 0111101 1011101 101111 101 101 1110111 1010011 101011 1 1111110011 11111111 111101000 11111100 11010010000 111110101 110101110 111001 10000 101111011 11111101 11101101 11001111 11011011 11111101 111111111 11111101 11111111 1011111110 110111110 1 11011100111 1101000 1110010110 101110111 1111111000 110111111 1011011101 111110001 111101101 111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 239
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 181
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; der, er, han, og, det, h, ei are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saa, hvad, og, han, vent, ingen, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines g, d, re, sen are repeated).

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