This is an analysis of the poem Livets Kermesse that begins with:

Jeg saa min Fælle mange Gange gabe
paa Turen hen. Vi naaede ved Skumring...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXX XXX bXX XXc XaX DcX XXX XXX XdX XXX XXX XXX XXX ddX XXX EXeE XXXE XXXE dXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXc cXX XXb XXc XXXE XXX XXXE cXX X XXX Xdd XXX XXd Xff XXX XXX XXX dfX XXX XdX XXX XXX XdX XXX DcX EXeE XXX dXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,4,3,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 110111110 1000110100 11111100 11001111110 1001111111 111111111 110011110 1101100010 110101111 1111110100 100111011 1111110100 1101110111 111101101 1111110110 111001011 11100111100 1110111 1100011100 1001100 110101111 1101111000 11011111 100111000 1101111010 110011000 11111110 110111111 110111010 1101101100 1111101100 1111100100 111110110 1101110011 1111101110 1101001101 11010100110 1111101100 1101110110 1101011110 11010101100 110001011 1110101 100111010 110111110 11001111 111111010 110 11011110110 11111100 1111111 110110 111110100 110011010 111101100 110 1110011110 111111111 1111001001 1101111110 111111100 111101100 11111111 111001111 110111000 111110010 1010110 1101101 01000111 11111111 111011 111110111 1001110 1111011101 111101111 11110100010 1110101110 11111111 11111111 1101111100 1100101000 110111010 111110111 110101111 1111110100 10111011 1111010110 1101011011 11001100100 110 111110010 111111100 110101010100 11111101110 10111011 1110011110 110 11110111 110111110100 1111111110 1011101110 1101101100 11110111 11111111 1011111100 111111110 1111011110 11111110 10111110 1110100 1011001110 100111110 011101110 11101110 10111101 1111111 110111110 0101011101 1101111000 1110111 1100011100 1001100 111111110 10111000 100011100 1110111100 1101100110 11011111100 11010111 11111101 011011111 1101011111 1111110110 100111110 1110101110 111111111 11101010 10011100010 101111110 1001101010 1101111010 11011101010 1111110110 1101010111 1011010110 11111110100 1111110110 111001011 11100111100 110111110 110101001 1110111010 110110 1111011011 1000100010 011011110 110111010 111101110 1111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 167
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, af, hun, i, mig, den, en, de, tr are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, hun, vi, en, den, jeg are repeated.

    The author used the same words en, den, jeg 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 dukken is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words wanda, dukken at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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