This is an analysis of the poem Nymennesker that begins with:

Hvor vel til Mode følte jeg mig nede
i denne maleriske, gamle Rede!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX aaXXXXbXXXXXcc XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXdd XXXXeeX XXX XfXXXaaX XXXXXXXbXXXXXXfXXX eXXXbX eX aaeX XXXXXXXXdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,14,8,10,7,3,8,18,6,2,4,11,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 1110011 111011101 1111110101 10011111 111101111 11001001110 10111101010 10011001010 1101011000 1100010100 110101110 1111110 111110111 1111101 1111011101 111011000 1111111100 1111110011 110011100 11111111 1101001101 111101111 10001111010 01101110 1101001101 1101110100 111001111 1001111100 1100111010 1101110111 110111 11111010 1111001101 1111111010 11011111000 111111010 1110111000 111010101 10011011 11101111 11111111 1111101110 1101110100 100111110 111010101 1111110111 110111011 11111011 11111111 1101011011 111111110 111111110 11001100110 1000111110 1111001110 1110111010 1111000110 1101011111 11110111110 1101010101 11111111 11101110 11011111010 1101010101 1111010111 11111111 1111111000 111110110 111010110100 1110111011 11111101 11111111 110001111 1110011110 111111011000 1101111001 10111101110 1101111110 1001110010 110111101 111110110 111110010 11111101 111111000 1110011100 11110110 11111011 1111101111 111110111 111111101 1111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 279
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, i, den, er, n, at are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words vi, han 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 nnet, rende, n, mt, os are repeated).

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

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