This is an analysis of the poem Mennesket Og Digteren that begins with:

Jeg maa her fortælle meget lidt med mange Ord,
og I véd, den Kunst er stor....

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa XbaX XXX XCXXXX XXXXbb XXdXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXeXX XCXXXXX XXXXXXXaX XXXX dX dXdXXX XXaX fffXX ddXXXX XXXXXX XeeXXXX XeX XcfXfX XXaa XfXXX eeXX XfXf aXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,6,6,7,9,5,7,9,4,2,6,4,5,6,6,7,3,6,4,5,4,4,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101111 1111101 1101111110111 101111 1111110101111 11111110 1101111101111 111101 101110001110010 111011101100100 1111111 1011111111111 11111111 111101011001 1111110101110 11111001111110 110011010111 111101011 111101111101 1111110110111 11011110101111 11111110 1101011110 111111110111001 111010110111 1111111111001 110010111100 11111110111011 111110101110 110100110111 10101110011011 1111101010111011 111111100 01101111111 11101101101 1111110111001 111111110111 010011 101011111111011 1011011 11111111111 111110111111101 101111011 111111001111 1011001111111 11111111 11110111011100 111111111111 11101101111101 11111001111111 1010111011 1101111011111 1011101101100 11111110111100 11110 1110111010111110 1111101111101110 111100 11101111110101 10101111010 111110101011 110100111100 1101110111110111 1111 11011101111111 1101110111110 111101111111 111111111111 111101111111 1110111111111111 1110100111111 111111111011 1101010101100 1110011111 11110101111101 11111011111100 1110111101111 1011110101111 1111111111 11101111010100 111111111111 1101101111001 1111110111111 11110111111111 1111011111111 111011 1110100111111 111110001111 1110100111100 1111101110111 111011101110111 11101110111011 11111110101111111 11101111110110 11111 111010101010101 11111111111 11101111111111 1111111110110 1111111111111 111110111110 111011101010101 1111101111110 10111101011100 111001111011 111111011111111 11100 11101010101111 11111101110000 11101101111111 11111011111111 111010111001 111010101110111 1111101111 1111111111001 111111101011101 1011000111101 11101010111111 111110011101111 111011111101111 11101110111001 1110111011111010 10011101110000 011111001110111 1111111001100 111010101110111 1110111011101111 111011101001101 1011011110100 11111111111110 101111111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 131
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, lidt, men, har, det, og, var, de, i, med, t, hun, vilde, knuses, saa, vi, snart, l, dysted, en, som, lever, alt are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, da, det, og, snart, sk are repeated.

    The author used the same word ingen 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 l, s, m, re, de, t, ord, dt, ver are repeated).

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

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