This is an analysis of the poem I Lykkens Usandsynligste Allé that begins with:

I Lykkens usandsynligste Allé,
hvor alle Træer og Ranker var at se,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abX XXc aXX cXA XXc XXb XXX cXX bXb cXA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 11010001 1111101111 110011011 11111011 1111111011 11111101 11111101 1101010101 110101011 1111010101 01111111 11010001 10111111 11111011111 1111111111 1001111001 111111111 11011110 110011110 11111111 11101110 1111011101 1111111 1111110111 110101011 111101111 111101111 111110101 1110010110 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 113
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; og, det are repeated.

    The author used the same word hvordan 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 v is repeated).

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