This is an analysis of the poem Mindedigt Over J. P. Mynster that begins with:
Slægter fødes, Slægter svinde, Tiden kommer, Tiden gaaer,
Men den høie Polens Stjerne fast og uforandret staaer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010101 1111011110001 10101010111101 11101101010111 1111111111 101011101011101 10101110111111 10111101110111 11100110110010 1010111111111 011110101111101 0111110110101 110111001100111 101110101111101 111110101111001 101111101111 10111011001101 10101111111101 101111101010111 111010111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, st, du, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, derfor are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines st, gt are repeated).
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