This is an analysis of the poem Besøget I Himlen that begins with:

Som jeg kom over Bakken, saa' jeg det milebrede
Kornbølge-Højland uden Pletter af Muld...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XbXb ccXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbd XXXX XXXX bXeX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX fXaX XcXa XXXd XXXX fXfX XXeX XXXX XXXX cXcX XgXX bbXX XXaXX XXXX XXXX XhXe hXXX XbXX XXXbX XXXX XXXX XXgg XXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010111100 11101011 1101111101 11011101111 1111101110 1111111011 111110101111110 11110110101 11111001010 11001101011 1111111101010 0111101101 1111111111 10111111 11111111011 11111111110 1101111110 1111111111 11011101001000 1100110111111 1101111111 1101111111001 110111011011 1101110010 111111110 11011011111 1101111100111 10101111111 1110001010000 11111011010 1111111110010 10011101101 1111011010100 10100011111110 11101111110010 11111101010110 111110101011110 10110011101100 1111011111010 1111111111110 10010101011010 111011101110101 11110111000111 10011001110100 1101111111010 1111011110000 11011111011 110111011111 110011011011 111101111100 1111111111 111011011001 1011111101110 10110011100 11011101101110 11100010111 1101101101 111111011000 1111111111 11110101111010 1111110110111 111010111011 11101011011 11111111011 11100011111 1101101110100 1101111100101 1110111110110 111111111 01111110100 0101101011110 11111101110 0111001111111 110011011111 1111010110100 111001111110 100110111101 11011111111001 111111011101 1101001010111 11110011101 0110100110100 010110111000 11011111101 0111100111 10011101111 1100010111 110100011100 11111110001 11011111011 111010111111 1111111110101 111110010111 110111011110 110110111001 10011110100 1111110111001 110110100111 10110101000 11011110101 01100010111 1110001101100 110101101011 1000110111011100 111110110110 1101111110010 1110111101 100110111010 1101110010110 111110111010 110110101110 110111110100 1 111101111110 1111011110 11011101111100 11010100100110 1101101111010 11110111110 10011011110 11111111100 1101110110111 111110110111 111001111010 110011011111 11111111001 1001111101011 1110111101 111110111101 1101100111 10010001011 110011011110 11011110110 10111011010 1110011110101 111101100101 1101111100110 1 11111011101100 1111110111110 1111011010 10110001011000 111101111000 1101010111100 11011111011100 101010111110100 111110111110 1111100011010 11111111110 0101110110010 1101111110111 111110111110 111101011011 0011111111 1111010111111 111101011101100 1111111111 1111110100110 1111101110110 100111111010 1110111001000 1111001001110
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 201
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 164
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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, sig, jeg, du, da, som, den, af, der, mig, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, da, som, den, han are repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg 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 de is repeated).

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