This is an analysis of the poem Den 1. Fabel that begins with:

Saa ved sin Myndighed Skov-Guden Krigen endte;
Man kunde nu igien den gyldne Alder vente,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXbXbXaXaXbXbXXXacXXXXdXXXeeee XXffXXXXXXXXdXffaXXXXcXXXdXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXXXXeeXXXdXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,36,60,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111100110101 1111011101 1101111111 1111011110 11100110100 11110011011 1101111101 1111111100 11100011010 1111111010 11110011101 111101110100 1111111111 11010110101 11001110101 1110111011 1111011 111010 11011 11111 11010101 110101 111101 111100 110011 10101 111111 11111 11011001 11011 111011 11011 110111 10101 1111101 1101 11111100 1011 1111101 111111 11111 111101 1111111 100101 1101100 11011 110010 11011 1101111 1011 111111 111001 110101110111 01110110011 1110011011 11100111101 01011110010 1111110101 01110111 11101100111 1110111111 1111011111 1111111011 11011110111 011111110 11101111110 1101111011 1111111101 11111111 11100111101 11010111111 111011111 11011111110 11101110101 1110111101 1110111011 11110111111 110101110010 1110011011 11110110101 1110110111 110101110110 111101111101 111110011 11101110111 11011110111 11101110101 1101011101110 111111111 11110111011 110101110101 111101110111 1101111111 1110110110 1111110111 100111110101 1101111011 11011100111 11111111110 111011101 1110111111 10011111111 111101111101 11100110010 11111111110 1101111110010 11110111011 1110110101 111011110 11010111011 11110110100 1111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1580
  • Average number of words per stanza: 285
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i, de, den, ve, paa, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words man, en, den, hver are repeated.

    The author used the same word saa 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 ve, de, re are repeated).

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