This is an analysis of the poem Apologie For Sangeren Tigellio that begins with:

A: Aarsagen, hvi du leer, at vide jeg forlanger.
B: Jeg nyelig læste om Tigellio den Sanger:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbcXXXXXXXXXXdXeXdXXabXXXXXXXXXfXXddXgXXhXXidXaXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXbXXXhXXXXXXadXXXXXXaXhXXXXXXXgXXjjXXhXXXffXXabXXkkaXXdXXXXXdbaeXXXXXXdXXgXXXXfaXXdXXXXXXdXXehXXbXXXXbaXXbXXXbaXXXXXXXlaXXXXXXXXXabXaXjXXXbXXXXXlXXbXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXcXbaXXXXXXXdhXXXXXXbXXXbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 370,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100101111100 111011100110 11100110100 1110011101 111100110100 11110110111 1111111111 11011111111 111101111100 11110111110 11111110111 1111111111 1111011111 11110111111 110111110100 110101100101 1111111111 110111110111 111101110100 111111111 1111111000 111000111000 1101111100 110101111001 111001101000 111111101100 110111011 10010011100 011111110101 1110110100 11110111101 11010110101 101011111 110100110111 1111011100 11011111100 110111111 110111110111 11010110111 11010111001 111111111111 1111111111 111000110111 1111111110 10011100110 11100111110 11111110111 111001110000 11011011110 11000111011 1110011011 1110111011 1110111101 1111111111 1111011110 1100110100 111000111100 1110001111000 110111100111 10111010101 110100110101 1101001110010 111101010 1101111110 111101110110 110101110010 1111011111 11010011011 110010111100 110101110110 11110110111 11100111010 111000111101 110101111010 1111111011 11010011011 11101111010 111011101010 11011110101 11100010111 11101111100 111001111110 1100011111 1101011101 1110011111010 111011101010 1101001101100 11111110110 111101110101 111101111110 11110101100 11010101111 1111011111010 1111011111110 11011110111 11100111111 110111110110 1110111101 11001100110 110111100111 0111100011 1110111010 11010111001 11110111010 11010111000 111001110110 1110111100 11011111011 11111001000 1111011001000 100101111100 11011100111 11011110100 11010011100 11111110101 1110111111 1111111111010 11101111100 11000110111 11011110101 1101001101110 1101001111010 110111011 11110110100 110100011100 1110011101 111101100101 110101110100 11110111011 01111111011 11101111101 1101111111 11110111111 11111110111 100011111 110101110111 11101111101 01011100111 1101001111 11010111101 111111100100 1101011100010 11100110101 111101110101 1101001101110 1101011001 110100111111 11110111011 1110011101000 111011001000 110001110101 11010111000 11110011110 111111101010 11011110111 11001111101 11010110111 1101111111 110101100101 110001111110 111111110 1111011011 1010111110 11011101010 110111110101 1110011101 111111111 11110111010 110111111110 111100101110 1110111111 11111111101 11010111110 110111111110 111110111 1111110010 1101001101100 11010101101110 11010110101 1111011111 11100101000 1111000101000 111100100100 110111010101 0111111110 11011100101 111000111101 111001111101 11010111110 11110110011 111001110101 11010111011 11111100011 11100110111 111111011010 111101110001 1001111110 1000010110110 110101110100 111101110101 10101101110 11111110111 111101111001 101110110101 110101110101 11011111011 11110111111 11000111101 1101000101110 1111001111010 11110011100 11110101100 1001011111 111101110011 111001110100 11000111011 1101111101110 1101111101110 111101111001 11010011011 1110011011 11010111110 1111011100 1101111111 1100011100100 100101100110 1110011011 11111110011 1110111101 11100111011 110111111 11010110100 11101101101 111100110110 11110111111 110100101001 110100111010 110101110111 1111111111 111011011 110111110111 111101110101 110000110101 110111111000 110101100010 111011101110 11010101110 1110111011 111111110000 01011111100 110101111101 11111111101 10101100100 110111110100 110011011 1111110011 1110101100 1110001001110 11110110100 111101101000 111011111010 1101111101010 1101111101110 11010111011 111101101010 111111101110 111001111001 110001110001 111111110 11010111111 111111010110 110100110110 1111101110 111101111110 110111111111 11010111111 11100110110 11101110111 11011110011 110111110111 1011111110 1101011101110 111100111101 11110011111 10100111110 1100011111100 110111110100 111111111110 011011101010 1101011101010 11010111111 10111111011 10111101010 1101111101110 110001110101 1111110101 10111111100 110111111100 11111110111 11110111111 111011101100 1101011100010 110111111001 110111011111 111011111 110001111111 1110011100 110111100001 101001101000 111001111010 11010111101 110101111100 111011111 11110111111 10111110111 11111110111 11001101000 1101111101010 110101110101 1101111111 1100111111 111101110100 1111111111010 11011111100 111001101000 11110110011 111000110111 110111111110 11101101010 1101111111010 11111111001 1100111010 11101111110 1011011101110 110101101000 11010111101 0101111101 1111011011 11100110111 1101111011 111011111010 111001100010 1111011011 11101111001 111100111100 1111111110 11010111101 11011111111 11110110110 110111111000 101101101000 1110111010 110111100100 11111111101 1110011011 11110110100 111001000110 110111100010 11010010100 111011100 11001111000 110100110110 11110110100 111111110111 110100110111 111100110011 11010110100 111100110101 1101011110 11011111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 16539
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3171
  • Amount of lines: 370
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, han, en, for, nu, man, naar, hun, som, seer, i, den, r, er, om, med, ey, at, og, vi, af are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, en, man, saa, jeg, han, om, end, i, af, hvad are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, r, ger, vet, res, ret, re, mmer, rst, ber are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase men connects the lines.

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