This is an analysis of the poem Over Hr. Hermanny that begins with:

Naar Dyden høy og glimrende og prægtig,
Aftvinger Jorden Lyst;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXXXcaXXdXXbXXXXeXeXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXdXXXfXXXXXcXcXXXXXXXXXeXXXcXcgXgXXXXfXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 84,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111011 100101 1011011110 111101 11011101010 11010 1101110010 11001 1111011100 111101 11100100110 11110 111100010 11111 110101100 111111 110010111 101101 1111011111 111101 111111111 10111 111010111 111101 1001111110 010110 11011000110 11100 111110110 110100 1101111010 110110 10111101100 11111 11100110000 110111 1011101010 11110 1101111010 11100 1111111110 1111111 111111111 110111 1111110111 110111 11110100 111001 111110011 111001 110111101 111101 1111010111 11011 1011010011 110001 111100111 11011 11110111 110111 111010101 111101 11111111 11101 1111111001 111111 1111111111 111100 01110111 11111 111101111 111111 111111111 11101 1100010111 111111 1011010101 101111 0111111111 110111 101100011111 110110 1111100111 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2941
  • Average number of words per stanza: 545
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • 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, af, ey, og, som, langt, fra, var, hans, du are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word langt is repeated.

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