This is an analysis of the poem Femte Juni that begins with:

Det er femte Juni, bag det grønne Vænge.
Alle de smaa Græshopper stemmer deres Strenge....

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXXaXXXXaXX XXXXbX XXX XXX XXXX XXXX bX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,14,6,3,3,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101111 1011010101 1011011101 1011111101 1111001101 10110111111 1111011001 11110111001 101011101 10011101110 1011111010 10110011101 11111111 111111111 11100011000 10110110110 11110111101 1101010111 1101101100 110111111 10110110111 10011101110 101111101 1110011101 1111011111 110110011011 101101101110 10101011011 1011011101 1011111101 1110110111 10001111111 11110011011 1011110111100 111110110110 1011111010 110011101 1100001010 1011011011 011001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nge is repeated).

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