This is an analysis of the poem Et Rimbrev that begins with:

Kan De huske den Dag i Paris
i Platanernes Skygge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aX bXXX XXXX XXXXX cXcX bXXX bXXX XXXXX deXX dXfX XXXX XXXX XgXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XhXX fXXX eX XX XX gcXXXXX XXgX cXXX XXXXbX XdXd XXXe iXiX XeXh XXeX XXXi XXXX XXXX gXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XX XXXX XXXg eX eX XXdXdXd dXXX XXXX XXXXeX XcXXX XXXg XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,4,5,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,2,2,7,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,2,4,4,2,2,7,4,4,6,5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110 110001 11111101 11111 1010111110 11101100 11111101 111111 1111111 101010 111111110 1100 111100110 1110 1 111100011 1010100 111101011 1101000 110011111111 111100 10111010 11100 11111111 10110 10100101100 11000 111111111 111100 1110110111 1011 1 111011111 11110 111111100 10110 111011101 11010 1111001 101010 110111111 110110 1111101001 110110 1101111 1110110 1111001 110010 111111 0110 1101111 11110111 1 10111111 11011 11111101 11111 10111011 11010 10101110 11101100 101101 111010 111110100 11010 101111 1111 110111110 11011 1010110010 101 101101011 111001 101111010 110 110100110 111 11110001 11111 1101101 1111 1111100110 0111 111011 101010 10100101111 1000 1 10110111 111000 11110000 110100 11100110 11110 10001111 10001 11111111 10011 101111111 11101 111000010 111011 101011111 10001 011011100 110000 1111001 11111 101111011 1100111 11111011 100111 011011011 1011 11111111 01010 10101001 1100110 111011110 111110 1111010 101010 101011010 111110 1111100010 110110 011111010 111110 10101111 110110 101011101 1110010 10111001100 1111 111101011 11111 0111010 1111001 111110011 11111 1 1111111 10110 11001111 1111 1111110 111110 11110 11110110 1111111 1010100 11111110 11010 10111101 11100 111001111 11111 1111110 11111100 11101111111 110110 1111111 1110100 111110110 101 11100110 11010 111111110 1111 1111100110 01110 1 0110011100 11001 1111101 110111 110111100 110011 101110111 10110 1111011 1110110 11110110 11010 1111111 10001 111000110 11001 11111101 101111 1111100110 0111 1 11111111 111100 111111 101010 111110101 111001 1110011 1010 10101111 1111 01011110 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, de, har, for, d, det, ngt, er are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, der, det are repeated.

    The author used the same words og, det, der, da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words lykke, dsel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Et Rimbrev;
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