This is an analysis of the poem En Sæde-Mand Gik Ud At Saae that begins with:
En Sæde-Mand gik ud at saae,
Og strøede rundt med begge Hænder,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX aXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX aXXX XXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 111111 1100111 10011010 11101101 1101111 1101101 1101011 11101111 1101111 11010010 11010011 1110111 1111110 11111110 1101101 1101111 11111100 1101101 1101111 111111 1101101 1011101 01110100 11001100 110111000 1111001 110010100 11011101 111101110 1101010111 111101110 11010101 111001100 1100011 11111000 11010111 110111110 11111100 11101011 11101100 1101111 11000111 11011
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word den is repeated.
The author used the same words der, hvor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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