This is an analysis of the poem Josef I Fængselet that begins with:
Der sad en Svend i det sorte Hul,
For synde, det vilde han ikke;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX bcXc XXXX cXXX cXXX XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX Xdede XXXX XXfX dXdX XXXX XXXc dXXc XXaX dcXX dfXf XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111111 11011111 1111011 1111111 111110110 11111010 11001010 100101111 1101110 1110111 1111111 1110101 11111011 11101101 1111010 110001111 11011111 11011110 11011001 111101001 1111011 1111111 111101 110001101 10111 11111111 1111111 11111111 11011010 110101101 110101010 11000111 1101001 11010111 10101111 01101110 011001 01011101 11111 11011101 11111011 11010111 10101011 1101111 11111110 10111111 11101001 1 11110111 1101110 1111111 1111010 11011111 111101 1101110 1111101 11101101 1111011 11011001 1101011 111101101 1011011 11001111 11111110 110101011 1100101 11111101 1110011 110111100 111110 1111101 11001011 11011101 011101 11010101 10001111 1101110 1101111 11010111 1101011 11011111 11001111 11111101 1111010 111101011 110101 110101100 11001011 10101100 1111011 11101111 1011011 1101011 1101111 111101101 1111011
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, i, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hans, om, de, din are repeated.
The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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