This is an analysis of the poem Brev Fra Landet that begins with:

Evig den opblødte Muld,
de dødsorte Skove,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXbX cXcX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa XbXb XXXX XXXX XXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10111 011 100111 1111 101101 01010 1111001 11010 11111 11001 11101 111 1011111 11101 1011111 11011 101011 111010 11101 11011 1001001 111 11011 11010 11010110 101110010 1111010 1100110 11011010 110111 01011 1011011 01111010 11010110 1111110 101100 1101011 111111 111101100 100111 1101111 011111 1101101 11011101 1111110 11111110 1010110 111110 1101001 10101011 1011011 11111 1111110 11110 10111010 111011 1111011 10111 11101 11111 10110110 11011000 11001101 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 65
  • 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.

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  • summary of Brev Fra Landet;
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