This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Syntes that begins with:
Jeg syntes, i en Baad jeg lod mig glide
ad Flodens Strøm ud mod det vage, vide....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXa XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXbXb XXXXXa XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111111 110111111 11101100 100110111 111001100 110110111 110111111 110111101 1101111010 11011011 1111111010 1111110100 1111111100 1110001100 1111001001 111110101 1111011101 111111111 110111111 111111010 1101011110 111111111 111110100 11111101 110101100 110111100 11111111 1111111 1111111 1111011110 11111111 0111011 01111100110 111111111 11010101110 11111101 1111110111 1101110011 111110111 110111101 111110 11011110 101101110 11111111 110111110 111110101 1100111 111000100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 231
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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, jeg, det, egen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, her are repeated.
The author used the same word det 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 kke, der, rke, de are repeated).
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