This is an analysis of the poem Højskolesang that begins with:
Hvad Solskin er for den sorte Muld,
er sand Oplysning for Muldens Frænde....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX XXbXXXXX bcbcXXXa XXXXXXXX
- 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: 11001111 011001101 1111111 101111111 111 110 1111 0101 110101100 111101100 111000111 11111110 111 110 1111 0100 11011101 111111 11100111 110101110 111 110 1111 0100 11000111 1101011110 110011101 110111010 111 110 1111 011 10101101 1101011010 11101111 111010100 111 110 1111 111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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, og, i, som are repeated.
The author used the same word som at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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