This is an analysis of the poem Genien that begins with:
Hen i Poseidons Stad med Menneskevrimlen jeg skrider
Og som et bölgende Hav, stöder mig Trængselen frem....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXcXXXXXXdXbXXXXdXcXXXbbXXXXXXXXXXeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111001110000110 1111111101 110010100101111 111110111111 11101111101 11101111101 1110111110000100 101100101001 1001011110010 100101111011 1110101001010 111000111110 1110011111010 111100101001 11111110101 10111100101 10111110011000 1111110101 1111101101001 101100101001 111110111010 111101001 1110010110110 11001110111 110011101101 11110111101 111111110010 11111101111 11101111101 111111111111 11100101100110 1100111001 1110101101011 1101111101 111110111010 111001101001 11111101111 10110101001 101111101110 1110111101 110101111010100 1010011101111 10111100101 111101101101 10011110110010 1111101011 1010111111111 1110110111 11110111110110 1011011010011 11110110110010 11111101001 111111111010 11001100101 1111011010111010 11111100101 11101111011011 111101101010 111011111011 11110001011011 1011011011111 110111011011 101100111110 1110110101 1110101001100 101101100101 1001100100111 1111010101101 101111100110 1111101011011 101111010 1110011100110 10101001111 100011010000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3850
- Average number of words per stanza: 696
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, med, i, som, en, den, mig, det, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words siig, und, og are repeated.
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