This is an analysis of the poem En Springende Literaturhund that begins with:

En springende Literaturhund
blir aarlig ved Juletid udraabt...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXa XXX XXa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010000 110110010 110001100 110111 111111 1111010 11111000 11010010 1100011 1111110 110000010 1110110 01111 110111 1111010 111000 1011100 1111000 1101111 110111 1101101 111111 111111 1111011 11111011 111110 111111 110111 1110000 11101111 11111 111011 111111 1111100 1111100 110111 1001110 11111 1101000 1111110 111010 1110100 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, man are repeated.

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