This is an analysis of the poem Rigsdagen I Helvede that begins with:

En Dag — dog nei! jeg burde sige
En Nat, thi hvilken Skoledreng ei veed...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXX XbccXXXXXXXd XeXXefeXefXXXXXXgXXXXXXXXaXXXXXdXXXXXXXXXdXgeeXXXXhXXXXXiXaaXXaXjXejXjdXXXXXXXXXXXXgXXgXXiXXXXXXXXXgaXXXkkkXXXXXaXXXXXXbb XiXiXgheeXXXdXX gXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,12,121,15,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 1111010011 11011111 101011 11110111 11111111 1111010100 1111110101 11011111 111111110000 101101110 11101101010 111010100 1111111 11111001 110111 101001000 1110100 110011 11011000 1111111 11110111 11101101 1111110001 11110001 1101110 1101100 111110110 1100111100 10111 1101110 11000110 1111010 1101111111 1110110111 11110111 110111001 11101111 11111011 1100111101 1011011 1111000100 110111101 111110111 11110000 1111001101 11101101 11011101110 1111101 11110110000 10011010 11010100 110101111 101111101 11010110 110011101 1111100 1110 111100 11111111 1101000111 11011111 110010001 10111111 11001100 111110011 1000111000 110001111 111111111 1001010100 1011010110 11010111 111001 1111111 1111110101 0101111011 11010100 11110100 1101101 110010011 11111110101 110111100 11001101 110011011 111111 1101111 1101111 11111110 111111100 1101111 101100111 111010011 1001110111 1011110111 1010011101 011111111 10111111 1111110 111001101 1111111 1110001 111110111 110101111 11110100 11011011001 110011011 11011000 10011100 111010111 110001101 111011100 11011101 11111111 1011101 1111010111 111111000100 1101110101 11010110 110001110 1101111 1111010 1100001110 1101111 110011001 11110011000 111101010 1111101 11111010 1101111 1111110 1111101 10000110000 10110111000 11111010 1111010111 111110101 11110010 11110110010 1010111 1110111 1111001 11100110 111110101 111100111 10010111 1011001110 110001011 111100110 110110111 11111111 100111 1111001 11111 1101111011 11111101 1111111010 110110011 110110100 111111 110111000 1011110 11010001 11010101 11110011 1111011 111111 1111010 11010011 100111100 11010010 1101011100 11111100 11101010 1110100 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 228
  • Amount of lines: 175
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; det, i, og, at, en are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, t, ves, rste are repeated).

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