This is an analysis of the poem Digterbekjendelse that begins with:

Jeg kan, jeg vil, jeg tör mig ikke lempe,
O Venner! efter Tidens usle Bud,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXXX XXXXXXbX XXXXXXXX XXXcXcXX XXXXXXXd XXXXXXcX XdXXXXXX XXXbXbXX XXXXXXXd XXXXXXXX XbXbXXXX XdXddXXX XXdXdXXX eXXXXXXX XXXaXXXX XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXb XXXXXXXe XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111111 110101011 1101110111 1111110101 1101110111 110111111 111010110 110111101 11111101 1111011111 1111001011 11011010 111010101 100100111 11010111010 11010111010 111010111 110001100 100011011 11010011 111101101 1001110001 1101011111 11111111 11100110 11101111 1101110100 100101111 1101110001 111110001 1101111100 11110101010 111111111 10010111 1111111 11011111 1111011100 111010111 1110101100 1111111010 10110110 11010011 11001111 11011110 110101111 101111111 1011011110 0101110010 111110001 1000110010 1110111 11111011 1110110101 110111101 1111111100 11111101100 11010111100 11100110 1111010110 11001101 11111010 1111010101 10011111 1111001101 1111111110 111111011 110111000 110101100 110101010 0101110101 1101011000 1101001110 11000101 011111101 1001011001 11101101 111011100 111110000 1111110100 1101111100 11111010 1110111 1101111100 111110101 1101110000 110111110 110111110 1101110011 11010110100 11111010 1111101100 11110110 11001101110 111111 111111110 110111010 1101101010 11011101 111010010 11110111 11011110 1111111 110111001 11111111 1101100101 1111011110 110110111 110011110 11111101 110110111 111110111 1111111100 110111011 11011111 1100101 11011111 1110111100 1111110001 1001100101 110100111 1001011110 1111011100 11011011 111011101 1100111 101111111 11111111 1111011 10011110 111111001 11011111 1111110010 011100110 11100111 11101111110 1111111110 110110110 1110011100 101111110 11011101 11010101010 110101101 1001111 110111011 11000110 11001011 0110001010 110110101 111110100 11111101 11001111 1100010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, der, til, med, sig, de, det, i, sin are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, til, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ler, kke, nnes, mme, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Digterbekjendelse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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