This is an analysis of the poem Den Efterladte Rose that begins with:

Saa blødt som Silke bøjer sig Papiret
Omhyggeligt omkring dit spinkle Løv:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XaXX bXXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111100 100010111 100000011 1111011110 1100101000 111101111 1101010111 11111110 1101011110 11111111 110111101 111101110 11111111 110011011 110111100 11010111 11111100000 1111011100 1101110111 111111110 1101110001 110111011 1101011100 100101111 10111011 110101111 011011101 110101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; dit, og, du are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines v is repeated).

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