This is an analysis of the poem I Skovene that begins with:

Med Bim og Bam og Ding og Dang
slutter Klokkerne Dagens Sang....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbcc XXXXXX ddXX XXXd aaddeX X XXXXXXXXXX XfXXgXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX X XXXXXX XXXXXX XEXeXE X h EhX XXX XXh E f hX h iXX dXb iXX h Xgf h XXX XX h X XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,4,4,6,1,10,10,10,10,1,6,6,6,1,1,3,3,3,1,1,2,1,3,3,3,1,3,1,3,2,1,1,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 1010101 11111010 110111101 1101111 11110101 111101101 110111100 111101011 11011011 111101101 011101101 110111111 110101101 111111111 1100111110 1101101101 11010010 110111101 110111111 11111111 11110111 111111111101 110111111 1111111 0111101 0111100 1011110 0110110110 10111010 11111101 1010110110 1111110 10111011 101111111 1011110 11111111 1011101 101111010 111101011 1111011 101110111 11101101 1010011010 10100111110 10101100 1001010111000 1101011010 11111001 101100101 101111110 11101011 111111111 10111111 1110111010 1011010110 10110111110 111010110 10110110 1011011010 1010111100 110011 1100101 11111001 101101010 101111101 1111111001 101011101010 100110 111001 1110111 1101101 1010110 111001 111010 10110110 11101101 1111010 110110010 1110110 1001011 111101 11111110 111001 1001011 111101 1100 1 1111011 1110011 11010100 11111010 11001000 01100010 11010110 101101 1101110 1111011 110 11011110 11000111100 1 110110 111110010 01110110 110011 11111 110111 0101100 10011 100111 1 11011010 111101 111110 1 111111 1111011 1111101 1010011 1111010 1 110110 11011101 11110010 1101100 111101 111100 1011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 35
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; og, at, en, i, nne, mmes are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word en 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 nge, nne, rner, mmes are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word gten at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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