This is an analysis of the poem Atomernes Oprør that begins with:

Som naar i Pampas en Gaucho med Lasso skal indfange Heste,
samles fra Pegasus' Ryg de rimløse Spand Hexametre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXX XbXXXcX aXXXX dX XXXXXXdXXe XXdd XfXf XXXXXXXeXfXX eXXXXX XXXX XgXXXXXXX XXXX XbXXXXXXX gcXXcXXXX XXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,5,2,10,4,4,12,6,4,9,4,9,9,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101101101 1011001011100 11011111101111 1001101101010 111101101111 101111101111001 101111001110010 10100100101101 10010100111110 1010111111110 1111101000101110 100010011111110 0110110110111010 1001000010010110 1010001011101 11101110011 111111001111110 10100110110110010 1110001110010 11001111111010 100101001111111 10111110011100 101101001111110 10100110011001011 111000111110110 1010101111000 1101110010110110 1101011001010 10110110111101 1111110101011 10101111111111 110011010011110 11001111100110 10110111110110 111111111111010 111011111011000 11100111100110 111100101111100 111011111110 1110101011111110 100110011111001 100100110010110 100011011000100 1110111011011111 111010110110 10111010111 10001010101101 1011011110011 100101101111110 11111011000110 1110111101101 11101010111101 1001101011001 10011100010100 1111110111110010 101101111110010 111001111111100 100100111010111 1000110110110100 101111110111010 10111010111110010 110011010011110 11011010110010 1001011011011100 10011011011 1111100011010 111110011011110 100010110110110 110011010011110 1111110111110 1101111100111 101101110011 101111111001110 111111101100 10100111101100 11011101101 11101010011000 111001011111010 1101011111101 10111111011101 11001101010111010 101101100001110 11010010111011110 11011110111010 1011010110110010 1110111111010 100011011011000 110111111100010 110010011100100 11111110011110 11010111101110 110010111110 100111111000110 1011111010011 1111011111111 1111110111111 110011010011110 1100111110110 111010101100111 1111100111110 11100111011001 10111101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • 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, i, et, alle, vil, jeg, er, det, r, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word alle is repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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