This is an analysis of the poem Til Lanterna-Magica-Doublanten I Sorøe that begins with:

Fætter, hvad skal Enden blive,
Farer du saaledes fort?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXb XcXX XXdX XXXX XeXX daXX XXXX XXXX XXXf XXXX XeXe Xaga XXXX XXXX hXXi dXdX XXba XXXb XXXX XXXc XaXX Xjdj XgXd XXXX XXXX XXXX kXXX XdXd XXXa XXha dXXk XXXX XXda XaXX XXXj XXXX XXXX XXXX XlXl emem XiXi XXdX cXXn XXXX XfXX XgXX XlXX XXXm XXXa gjXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101 1001001 101101 111010 1110110 111101 111101 1111101 1110111 111111 1110101 11101 11111100 111100 11111010 1111 101111 1111001 111111 1100100 1110110 111100 1111100 0110101 1111010 1111111 1111100 1100101 110111 1111001 111111 111111 1011110 1011110 111111 1111010 10111110 1111111 10111110 1110011 1110011 1110101 1110111 111101 101111 1011110 1110101 111111 111100 110101 110011 111111 1001111 1111100 1011100 111010 011111 111111 011111 101111 0111111 1110011 1110111 101011 11111010 1100101 1011010 1111011 1100100 1011000 10100010 1111110 11111110 1100001 10101010 1011100 1111000 1110111 1111110 1110100 1110111 1001100 101111 1010001 111011 111111 111110 1111101 10111100 1110011 10111110 101011 1101101 1111101 11111 1111010 10100100 111011 1110100 110111 101101 111111 1011101 100100 11101110 111010 1111100 111010 1010111 1111100 1011101 1110101 11111110 110100 1111100 1111100 1011110 1010101 11111110 10101011 1111100 110110 1110111 101011 11101110 111110 1011110 110111 111011 111100 1110111 1011000 11011000 1111101 11101110 101101 1100111 111101 1111110 101000 1110100 111101 1111 11111 101111 111010 1110111 111011 11101100 111111 0111100100 1011101 10100110 1110110 11110110 11111 1111101 1100110 011101 1010100 111110 111001 1010010 110111 011110 1011101 0011100 1011101 1101110 0100111 10111010 1110111 11111111 111100 11001000 1111111 1111111 11101 11111 101011 111111 11111 111111 101111 11101110 111011 1111110 111111 1111110 1110110 110111 100100 111111 1110101 10111 101101 11111000 1110010 1111110 1111111 111111 1011101 1110110 1110101 11101100 111100 1001001 111000 1111110 1110110 11101110 1110100 1111110 1100011 1110100 101110 111110 111101 101111 11111 1011101 1110100 1110010 101111 1011110 1010100 10110110 110010 01101110 101101 111111 1010100 111111 111011 1111101 1110111 111111 101111 111011 11111 1111001 1011101 111110 1001001 1101001 1010101 111101 111111 111111 111111 111111 11111 11011010 110010 01110100 111100 1011110 010001 11100110 101111 100111 101101 1111111 1101101 1011110 1110000 101011000 111001 01100000 110010 1110100 1100100 11111 110111 110111 1010110 1101110 101101 1111110 11111 1111001 1110111 111011 1100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 71
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 284
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; du, han, jeg, den, kan, i, bedre, dig, ei are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'og, 'du are repeated.

    The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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