This is an analysis of the poem Ruinens Indvaaner that begins with:

Paa Apenniners Spidse jeg kom
Til en Klosterruin,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXab XXXa cdXd eXed dXdf XgXg dXdf Xheh XXXX aeXX XXeX cXce XXdd eXXf XcXc XXXX Xiei XXXX dXXX XabX XXXX XeXX eXXX XXXj XXXX iXih XiXi XXeX hXhX XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXX aXXX XXfX XcXX cece XeXX XXXX aXXj XXad aeXX XXXX eXeX XXXX iXiX XXXX XhXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000111 11100 110100100 11111 1111011101 111 11111001 1100 10110011 1011 110111111 1100 100101010 1101 1011011111 1110 111101101 1101 11011011 111 111101111 1001 10010111 1101 110101101 1111 11110101 111 11101011 10100 1111101 11111 1111011111 1111 11011010011 1101 11011111 1111 10111001 11110 010011001 11011 1100101111 1011 1101111 1101 110111010 11010 111011011 1000 110111001 100 1101111 11101 110110011 11001 1101011 11100 11111101101 111 111101101 1110 110010111 110011 111101111 1101 10010111 111 1101111001 1101 011111101 1101 1111101010 11011 11011111111 1101 111111111 1111 111111011 1110 1111001011 1101 11111000 1111 111101001 11011 11101000 1110 1111101 11010 10110011111 11010 1110001101 11001 1001111 11001 0101100111 11111 111010111 0111 1111101 111000 11110111 1111 111110101 0111 111110100 1111 11110111 110001 1011110111 111001 111101100 111 110110111 1101 1100111101 11111 11111101 11101 1111111111 11101 110111111 1111 111101100 11011 110101111 1111 100010101 1101 111011101 1101 1111000011 11110 111101100 11000 11011011 1100 110111100 1111 11111111 1111 111100100 11010 1111100101 1001 10001101 111000 1101111 1111 100111101 1101 110111100 10011 1111111101 111010 111101101 111 110111111 1111111 110101111 111 110010101 11110 10101011 11110 1111111011 00101 1101001101 011 11110111 1101 1011001111 1100 1111110001 11101 111011101 1101 111001111 101100 1110111 11011 1101011 1101 11110011001 1100 111110001 1111 1100101101 1111 111010100 1101 100110111 1111 100111101 11011 11111101100 11001 110110100 111 1101100111 11001 1100101001 1101 1111101 111 1111001111 111 1111101001 11111 0111011 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 53
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 212
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, d, de, om, jeg, min, du, saa, i are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words jeg, og, giv at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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