This is an analysis of the poem En Gammel Pedant that begins with:
Langs hen med Væggene paa Byens Gade
Jeg som en Hønsetyv mig listed om;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XbXX XXXX caXX XXXX XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 111101101 0101111001 1101011101 111100100010 110111100 11110110110 1110111100 110101011 1101111111 11111101 110011100 111010111 110110100 111011111 0111010100 1111011010 100111101 1111111010 110111011 1110011 11111111101 111100111 1011010011 1111111110 111010101 11101100010 111001011 11111100110 11111100 11111111000 10011010 11111110010 10111111 111010110 110101111 11011111 10110111 101110101 1111100111 1101111010 11011111 1111111010 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, i, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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