This is an analysis of the poem Foraarsrim that begins with:

Det tørre Foraar i Skoven,
førend det Grønne kommer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaX XXX bXX XXa XcX XXX XXX baX ddX XXX XXX cXX XXX XXX eXX XXX XdX XXf XXX XeX aXX XXX XXX XXa XXX XXX XXe XXX feX fXX fXf fXX XXX dXX XXX XXX XeX XeX XXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110110 11110 0100110 1011100 1101100 1101110 1101101 111111 10100 10101 11111 1101110 1100011 1111111 1111011 111000 1011010 11101110 110111 11011011 111100 0111111 11111110 111010000 1011111 1101011 110111 11010100 1111001 11100100 1111001 1110110 1011110100 1001101 1001011 110100 11011011 110111 10011001 111111 11011000 11010100 0110110 1100100 111110 1101101 1100010 110011110 1011110 11101 110111 1101111 111110 110111101 11011001 11111 01101110 110111 11110110 111111110 11011110 111111 111101 011110 0111010 11110010 1100111 11001 11111 11010 011000 110010110 111011 1101111 111101 11101 011010 1010110 101011 111011 1110111 111111 11010110 1101010 111111 110010110 110111110 1101111 111010 1111110 1101111 10011111 111011001 1101111 111110000 111111101 111111 111110 10000100 1101101 0110110 1110110 1111101 11010110 110111010 01011 11101 11011110 010111 11110110 100101 11111 10010101 110111 1111011 111111 110101 11111 0100110 110010110 11111111 1011000 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 41
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 85
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • 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.

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

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

    The author used the same words hvor, hun, der, her at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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