This is an analysis of the poem Jakobs Drøm that begins with:

Op ad Bjerg og ned i Dal,
Over Mark og Enge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXb XXXXXXX cXccXXX XXXXXdX XXXXXXX edeXffX XXXXXXX XbXXXXX XgXgXXc XXgXgXfX XXXXXXg XXXXbXX XaXacXd XXdXggX XXXXXXX fXXcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,8,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 10111 1011101 1011 111100 1111100 11110 1011101 10111 101111 111100 101111 1100101 11111 1110111 11101 111101 11101 1010111 111101 11111 101110 10111 1010111 111000 1010101 101111 11100 111111 11101 111111 11111 1110111 1101101 10111 101111 1101 1011101 101110 111111 101101 1111 111111 11110 1111101 111010 101100 101111 1101 1101101 111010 1011101 111010 11101 111111 11111 1010101 10111 1110101 10111 1011101 1011101 11101 1 1111111 101110 1101100 10110 110110 110011 1111 1010101 11110 101111 11101 101111 1011111 111110 111101 1111 1011001 1110 1000100 1110111 1111 111111 1101 111101 10111 111111 1111101 00101 1001101 1111 110111 1100 101111 111101 10111 110111 11100 1000101 1111 1001101 1011101 10111 1111111 10101 1011100 11111 111110 1001111111 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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