This is an analysis of the poem Dog Tanken Om At Blive that begins with:

Dog Tanken om at blive
en Hund mellem mange Hunde...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX aba XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aXa XXX XXX aXX Xaa XbX XaX XXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 111011 1000100 0101101 11111 111101 1101110 11110110 110001000 111011 1101111 110110 11110001 1111111 111111 111101 1101111 1101011 1111010 1101110 10011010 1101111 1111001 111001 1101100 1100110 110011 1101100 1101100 11111100 111011 111111 111110 11110 11111001 111001 11011111 111111 1101101 111111 1111110 1111010 111010110 1111100 111110010 11110100 111011 11011110 11111001 11110100 100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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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