This is an analysis of the poem Det Er Saa Yndigt At Følges Ad that begins with:

Det er saa yndigt at følges ad,
For To, som gjerne vil sammen være,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXX XXXXXXbX XXXXXXba aXXXXXbX XXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111 10111101 10111101 111101111 11010 1110 11000 010 101100100 11111110 111100111 110000101 11010 1110 11101 0101 10110111 111101101 111101101 1111101 11010 11000 01101 1101 101001101 11111101 111111001 110100101 11010 1110 11101 010 1101110 110110101 111101111 1110111 10110 1110 1110 010
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word rlighed at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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