This is an analysis of the poem En Tyv I Rom that begins with:

Endt var Osteriets Gilde, -
Det var over Midnat silde,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XabXX ccXbX dXXeX XXXXe XXXXe fXgXX XXXXX XXXhb XXXXX XbXcX XhdXX XXaXX XXhhX XXXXX XXbbX aagXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XaXXX dabbX XXXXb XXXbf XXXXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 1110101 11101110 101111 101011 10011110 10111010 111111 1011101 11111010 1111110 11111010 1111101 111001 1111100 1001100 111101 111111 1011111 1011111 101111 1110111 111010 110011 11110111 11111 101001 1110110 1010100 1111111 1110111 1110101 111101 111111110 111111 11111110 11101110 1011101 11011 10101010 1110101 1001111 1111110 111111 111111 111101 11101100 101111 0100110 10101100 1011111 111011 1101110 1111110 1001111 1110111 110001 111101 11011 1011111 111011 110111 111111 1110101 101001 10111111 10101 11111 1110110 101100 11111 1101111 1110101 11111 1110111 111111 111011 11111 111001 11110 11001110 11101110 1110111 1110111 11101110 1111100 10011110 111111 111011 1111110 111010 111100 101111 111101 111111111 1111111 1111110 101011 1010101 111011000 11101 101111 111111 1110111 100011100 1111110 1111110 1111101 11111 1110110 1011101 11111 111111 1111101 111111 111011 101101 111111 1111101 11111 1111111 110111 1111100 101111 111011 11110110 10111110 111111 110111 1111010 10101100 10100110 11101110 11010000 11111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; og is repeated.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, mme, tter, re, k, rdet are repeated).

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