This is an analysis of the poem Borgfrøknen that begins with:

Scener af et Nytaarsspil ved et nyt Aarhundrede
prologus...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXab X XXXc XXXX aaXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XXdX XXXX XXeX b bXX XXXfXXXXXfXXXXbX b XXdXXXgX XhXXfXi b XbbXXXXX XXfXfX XXfXgfX XXfX XXXcXXXXfXfXXXXXXf XfXXXaaiXXbXXXXX XX XgXXXiXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXfXjXX XXX XaXXXXXXXaXXXX XfX XaXXiXXXXXXaX XXfXiXXX XfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,3,16,1,8,7,1,8,6,7,4,18,16,2,17,4,11,3,14,3,13,8,28,3,5,1,1,9,2,5,2,9,2,7,2,6,2,9,2,8,1,2,6,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100111100 100 10 1001010 10110 100 1000011100 1110010110 1111111 11111111 11111011 11101101 110101111 101011011 11110111110 1111001010 10111111011 101110100 0111011 1101101 110101100 10101111111 111011110 10110110 111111111 1111111110 11111101 110101101 111111011 111111 11101101 11010111 110111111 11101100 110111111 111110011 11111011 1101111011 1101110011 11111001000 1101111011 11110010111 11 111101101101 1101101111 101111110 10 111111 11101110 11111111 0111 1111011 010011101 11011011 1101 1100111 110 1111011011 1001 111 1101 1101111 11 100 1011100 10111 11111111 111111 0110100 11111111 11001011 10 11011111 10111111100 1 1111111011 11111100 101 11 100 110001111 1111101111 01011110 110111 111100110 111111 011111 10 10 11001101 11111 111111011 110110 100 11011 11001 110101 11011 11011 11010111 10 10 1111111 110110 100 110010 10111 1111011 110111110 100111 11010 1011010 011101 100110 110111 010110 100111 111101 111110 111101 1111111 11111 10 11101 1001100 1111110 11111 111110 11110 110101 1110 01111010 01011110 1111010 11110 11111 111110 01011001 100 11011110 10 1010010 110110 111110 1101 1101010 111100 111011 111101 101110 1101011 1101101 11011110 11011 111111 11111110 111111 100 111 1001 1101111 10 10 11101 1111110 10111 011101100 11011101 111101 1101101 1111110 10101 100 011110 1101111 10 01011110 011110 11011000 110011 10111 1110 11001000 1111111 10011110 0111111 11011011 11111110 1011001 100 11011111 1111111 10 1011110 110101 1111110 11111 1101111 1110100 1101111 1110110 111100 1111 1101110 101101 100 11011111 111111 11011011 111111 101110 111111 11 10 111101 111111 11111 111101 1111 11101 11110 1011 111111 111111 1111110 1101101 111111 1111011 11011110 0111011 111111 111011 1101111111 1011101 1111110 11111110 10 1011111 1111011 11100111 110110 100 110111 111 10 1111110 11111 1101101 1 11 101010110 10 01100 111101 1111 11000100 110111 1101 11110 11111 10 1 10 1111 0111 10010101 0110011 10 11110111100 10 00111 111 111100 101001 11101 111111 11011001 1101100011 10 11110 10 110111 01101110 1111101 11100111 10111101 11111011 10 1011 10 1101110 1101110 11111111 00111111 1101 10 1011110 10 1101 110101 1101111 11011101 110111 1111111 1111101 1111111 10 111111 10 101000 01111 11101 10111 11 11011 11 11 1010100 110111010 100 1111101 11111 1111010 111001 1101110 10 1101011011101 1101101 110 1101101 1111101 110100001110 10110111 1111011111 101010 11110 1011 10 1111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 56
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 345
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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, som, i, det, til, slaa, de, din, jeg, du, er are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, hun, de, og, skal, man, jeg, borgfr, ja are repeated.

    The author used the same word borgfr 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 gte, nke, gne, be, ver, de, sort, j are repeated).

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  • summary of Borgfrøknen;
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  • history of its creation;
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