This is an analysis of the poem Frederik Den Syvende that begins with:

Den blege Død greb med et Spring sit Bytte
Og trak sig lumsk og snigende tilbage, -...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXaXXXaXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110111 111111010 111011101 1101110111 1111101110 111110111 100111011 111010110 1111110110 1110110010 111011100 1101110111 1101110110 0111111 111111100 110011111 111101101 1101010111 11011111 11110111010 11001001 110101111 110111101 11111011 11010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 978
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, den, og are repeated.

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

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