This is an analysis of the poem At Den Skade Skulde Ske... Det Var Slemt For Dig Og Mig that begins with:

At den Skade skulde ske ... det var slemt for dig og mig,
du Vandringsmand og Ven, som paa Livets lange Vej...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111111111 010011111011 10111111110 1001111011000 111111101111111 1111000111011 10110110111 1010110100001 11101011101111 110011101011 1111010110001 110110111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, vi, nger are repeated.

    The author used the same word vi 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 nger is repeated).

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