This is an analysis of the poem Over Andreas Schyth that begins with:

Mon Støv kan følge med den Høye,
Hvem fandt hans Spor og hvilket Øye...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXX XXbXXX XXcXXX XXXXXc XXXXXd eXXXXX XXXXXc XXXXXX abbXXX XXdXXX XXXXeX XefXXf XXXXXX XXXXXX ab eXXX eXbeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,2,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 11111101 1111001 1011111 1111101 1101001 111111 1111010 11010111 10111010 11111110 1101110 1111111 11110111 1111001 1111110 11110111 01110000 11111101 10010011 1110100 11111010 11100110 111111 1010011 11011111 11100101 10011110 111111 1111001 110101110 11110100 01011000 11111011 10011101 1101011 11011111 1101101 1100011 110101100 111001000 11110111 011101 1101011 10100111 110100110 111111010 11010111 11110100 111111 1111111 1111101 11111111 1111110 1100111 111101111 111101 1011111 1101011 10111111 1111111 1110110 11110 110011100 11101110 1101100 111111110 110111010 11010111 1110111 1101111 11010111 111111 11111101 101111 110011 1111010 1111111 11111111 1111111 1111111 111111010 10111100 11010111 1111000 110101 1111110 1110101 1111111 111011 11011010 110110110 1101111 11111110 10000100 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 185
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; min, og, han, til, du, var, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words min, det, et, han are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye, le, de, ver, rlig are repeated).

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