This is an analysis of the poem Venner! Lad Os Ihukomme that begins with:

Venner! lad os ihukomme
Hvede-Kornet, i os saa't,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX aXaXXX XbXbXX XcXXXX XXXXdX XeXeXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XeXeff XXXXXX XgXcXX XXXXdX XXXXXX gXgXXX XhXXXX XXXXgg XXXhfX XXXhXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXhXX XXXiXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXfXX XXXXXX XhXXXX XXgXcc XXXXXX XXXXXX XXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 110111 111011 1111110 110111 1011100 1110101 101110 1011101 111001 111111 1011001 1111110 11111 11101110 1010111 1111110 1101110 110111 0110101 1110111 110110 111011 111111 1111100 1111001 1011100 1000111 101111 1110111 1010111 1011111 111111 1111111 101110 11101110 1010101 111111 111101 111111 10111010 10111110 1111110 1110100 1111110 1111101 1011101 1110110 11111000 1110011 11101100 1111111 1110111 0100011 1011111 1111011 1110111 1110111 1111110 1010110 11110110 10111010 10111010 1111101 111100 111011 11111110 1111101 10111100 1011101 1111101 1110111 111111 111111 101111 111101 1111110 111111110 01001110 011101 10101110 1000101 111100 1101111 1010011 1001101 1001111 1111101 101111 11111110 1001101 1010101 1000110 111011 01111110 1111110 1110111 111111 110011 11111 11111 0110010 1111111 1111111 1110111 111111 1110111 111111 1011111 110111 111101 101011 11011010 10011110 1111110 1010101 1110111 111001 1111111 1111101 1010110 1101110 10111 110001 111110 1010100 1110111 111011 0110011 1110011 101111 1111111 111110 0111111 11111 1010111 111111 1110111 1111000 11111 1010100 1011100 111001 1110111 1011110 1010100 1111110 011111 1110011 111111 011011 110110 1111110 111111 1110110 1111111 111101 1110111 111111 111011 1111011 1101111 1101110 101111 1110110 1110111 1110101 11111 1111110 11111 1111110 111111 1011101 111101 1111100 1110101 11101000 1111111 1011101 1111111 1111110 1011111 1111111 11111 1111101 1111010 1110101 1100101 1111101 1110111 111111 1111111 11111010 1111101 1111110 1100111 1011101 111110 1001010 101011 111010 1110110 11101110 11111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 226
  • 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:

    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; det, har, jeg, du, dem, re, og, de, hvad, han, os, som, i, hans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvad, ingen, vil, om are repeated.

    The author used the same word hvad at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, ndte, re, ve are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word givet at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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