This is an analysis of the poem Den 9. Fabel. that begins with:

Saa Mord, Fortvivlelse man alle Vegne hørte;
Fra et til andet Sted den flygtig Fama førte...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXbXaXXbXcXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXa XXXXdbXXXbXXXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXXXbcbaXXXXXXXXbeXaXXXXXXXXXXX XXffcXXaXXXXXXaaXXXcbbbcXXXcXbXXbXXXXXaXXXXXXXddXXXXXbXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXebbXXXXcXXXbcbXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,56,96,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001111 111101110101 11011110101 110111110100 1100110011 0101011011 111111100 111101111101 1101011101010 10111101100 11100110111 1101111111 111011101010 011001100110 11110011011 11011100101 1101111101010 111101111001 11011100011 1111110100 110111001100 1110011111100 1101110011 1101111111 11011110100 1101111111 11011110101 11011111111 1101111111 11101110111 100111110111 110111111 11110 1111 11110 1011 111011 1111010 11010111 111010 1111100 11110 1011110 101100 110110 1111 111110 10111 11110 1101000 10110 011110 1111011 11111110 1111011 110110 1111111 1111010 1111101 101111 1101101 1001010 1101111 110110 11100111 11101 1111101 100111 1101011 011110 1111011 0111010 1111111 1111010 1111011 1101100 11011101 111110 11111101 11111 10010111 111110 11001111 111101 1001101 11011 11010101 110101 110101111110 111101110110 11000111101 11101100111 111101110111 111011111100 111101110101 1111100101 100111111010 1001111101000 110100111101 1101111111011 111110111 111111111 11111111 111001111 110111111 1111011111 11011110100 11101101101 11101111010 111101111010 11101110110 111111011 100101110101 1101111111 11010111011 11100110001 11101111100 101111101110 1111111101 1011011111 110101110110 11111001010 111001100100 11010111011 11011110111 1111011111 1111111101 11011110100 110100100110 111111111 11010011011 11100111101 110101110110 111001101100 1111110101 11010111101 1110111111 011101110001 11101100111 111101100111 110111111101 111101111110 11011111110 1101111101 110101100111 1101111011 110111111000 1101111011 111011111100 111011101000 1101111101 11011111011 11101110011 110101110110 1110111110 1101011101101 110101101100 1101001100010 11101110101 111011011 011101111001 1110111110 110101110001 110101111111 1101101111 110101110101 110101111101 111001111101 1101011111110 111011101010 1111111001 11100011100 1101011110 11100110110 11100111111 11010100100 1101001101100 1110001110 11110011100 1110011111 01111101110 110111010010 11110011100 1101011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2670
  • Average number of words per stanza: 475
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; de, den, hun, sin, d, sig, jeg, da, ey, nu, din, at, og, r, f, af, en, dem, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, o, gid, jeg, undtagen, nu, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rte, de, re, d, tter, be, ber, rde, kker are repeated).

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