This is an analysis of the poem Høffdings Elever that begins with:
De mødtes til Filosofi, da deres Hjerter kom i Takt,
Og vandred som paa græsgrøn Sti med Høffdings Bog i Pagt....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XaXXbXbX XX XXXX XXXXXXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,8,2,4,10,6,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011100011010111 110111111111 0111111 111111100 11110111011001 011101000111000 110011 0101001 11010111 0111111 111110111010 11011 1111011111 111110000111101 10111100 1111111001000 110001 11011001111111 11111110110110 11111 1101111 1110011111010 1101111 1011101 11111111010111 11110111 1101111 1110100 1011101 1111111101110100 110101 111111111101 11111 1110100 11011 1111100 1110111 11111111 1111101 110101 110011 11110100 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 228
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; de, i, en, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, det are repeated.
The author used the same words de, hun at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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