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

Op, mine Mænd, til Ledingsfærd!
Op! Kamp og Bytte vinker,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XabXXXXc XXXXXXXX dXXXeXXX fXgXXXXX XXXXhhXX bXXXXXgX XXXXiXXX fXXXXhXa XXhXffaa XXfXiaXX fXXXXgXe jXXXXXXa aXXXXXXa XXfXXXXX XXdXbXXf jXiXXXXX XXXXXkXX fXXXllXX XXXXXaXX XjXjXXgX fXXgXXXX fXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXakkaa lXlXXXXf bXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX XcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 111110 1001011 11110100 111111 11011101 11110 11111 110111100 110010 11101001 1111010 1111100 1001111 110111 111111 11010111 110111 011111 110110 1110110 11011111 1101100 1111010 1101111 11011 011111 110111 1111101 1111100 11111 01101 1111101 11111 1111111 111101 1111111 111010 111001 11111 11110101 110111 01110100 11110 0101101 111111 1111010 101110 11000110 110101 101011 11111 110111 11010111 1111010 101000 11000111 110101 11100100 111001 11010011 1111110 110101 11011 1101111 1111 111100 11011 1111111 1101111 110101 111110 111111 111100 101111111 1011 11110111 1111101 0110110 111010 1101101 1111010 1100011 100010 1101111 11001110 10111 1111 11110111 111110 1101101 10110 110111 011011 11011 111010 101111 1101100 1111101 1001010 1100010 1001101 11110 1111010 1111000 1111110 1101110 1111010 11110111 111111 1101100 11110 11001100 11011 1101111 111101 11110111 11100101 1111110 111110 1110011 11111 1111111 101111 11110111 11110111 110111 1111111 111101 111101 1111101 110111 1111100 11111111 111101 111111 11111111 111110 1111111 1101110 1011100 11111111 11011 110101 101111 111101 11111100 110110 11011101 1001101 1111 110110 1110111 1101000 1101001 111000 11111111 1110110 110111 11111 1111111 11011 11110111 11011 1101111 111111 111110 1101110 1101101 111110 11001111 1111110 0111110 1111101 11110 100110 11110001 1101 11011000 1111 11011101 111101 11101 110111 1111001 10011 110111 111101 1111110 11010101 11101 10011 101101 110001 11101 111110 11011101 1111111 1110 1101110 1111111 110111 111111 111101 111111 11111111 111011 1111 11111111 1111111 1010111 10111 11001001 11110111 11010 11010 1101111 101110 01111 1101010 111111 1111110 11011 1110 1101011 11111 11001101 110101 11101 1111010 110110 100100 111110 110111 1111001 1101 11010101 1100011 1100010 1111010 1000111 111010 1000110 1101000 1111111 1101010 11101 11011 1111111 1101100 10110111 1111010 11100111 10011100 1101110 111100 11110111 1101010 1001111 111010 11100111 110111 11101 11101 11010110 1011 11010111 0110 11111100 1111100 10111 11110 1111011 110101 1111101 1111 11100111 111111 1111 111101 11000111 110101 1111111 110111 111111 11111 111110 101111 111100 110000 1100101 111110 1101010 1101111 101101 110101 11111001 1011100 1111111 101110 11101 1111101 110110 1101010 1110101 1101000 1101010 110010 11100001 11001100 11011 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 312
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; r, og, de, d, i, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words op, og, med, o, en, ved are repeated.

    The author used the same words ski, og, da 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 kket, r, rk, der, ves, ger, de, den, ver, vet, ve, dte, nner are repeated).

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