This is an analysis of the poem Hyrder, Som Paa Marken Her that begins with:

Hyrder, som paa Marken her,
Over Hjorden himmelkiær,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabbXXXX XXcXXcXdX XaXXXXeeX XfXggXXaX XaXXXXhhX XiXaXXaXX XXXXiXjjX aXXXiXggX XbXXXXXdk XgkggkgXX aXgXXgXfX XiXXXXXXX XXXeeXXXX gXXiiXXXX XXXXXXXfX adXjjXXXX kXXadhXXX aaXXXbffX XXXkXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 1010100 1101 111101 10111 111 101111 1110111 11111 1010100 1011101 1111 0100111 111111 101011 1110100 11111 11110 1010111 111101 11101 101111 101101 10110 1111101 11111 1110 111111 1010101 11111 1011001 1011101 01011 1111101 111101 10111 101111 111111 10111 1000111 1111101 1111 111101 1110101 1111 1110111 101111 1101 1110101 11111 10111 1110101 101111 11111 1011101 1011101 10110 101111 11110 110100 011011 1110101 100100 101011 1111111 111110 101111 1111111 111010 011111 101101 101110 10110 1001101 101010 100111 11111 11110 1110111 1011101 1111010 1011111 11111 111010 111111 100011 101010 101011 111001 11110 1111101 111101 100110 11111 1111111 10110 1110111 1110100 101110 111111 1111111 101010 1010111 111111 111010 110001 111111 11110 111011111 111101 11101 1011101 1111101 1011 1101101 110101 10111 1111101 111111 111 1111111 1010100 11101 1101001 111011 1111 1111101 100111 10101 111111 10111 10111 111101 1110101 11110 11111 1111111 111111 110111 1110111 1011 101101 011011 11111 11111111 1111100 11110 111111 11111111 1011111 1001111 1111101 1110 100011 1011101 11111 1111111 1110100 11101 1010111 111111 11111 1110111 111101 111100 111011 11111 101010 1111111 111111 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 183
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; d, den, i, min, og, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words fandt, hvad, ham are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

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