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

Le pape est athée.
Paa alle middelalderlige Mure i det ugudelige Paris,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXX XXbXXX XXX accXX dXXX eXXcX XXfXXXebXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX bXXXXXXgXXXaXXXaXXX XXXXXXXhXXXXafXXXXXX XXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXiX eXXi XghXX bXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXcXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,3,5,4,5,23,19,20,20,13,4,5,7,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011 1110000111100010 111011101010 11110010111100 1110010 100100 11011100 11010010011000 101110010 0111111110 11001101110 1001000 110011011001101011000 010111101101 11001110 111110110 11111100011 1111111 111011110100 110011110 11111101 1111001 11101111 1111111 1111101111 11111100111 111101111 110110011 110101110 111111010 1010111 11001101111 1101010001 011111100 1111110111111110 011101100011 110001100101010 1100111100 1011011011100 10101101100100 111110111 1100111101100 111010111000 1111 110100 01110110010 11111101110 110111011 111101111101100 11111011 11011111 1010111 11010 11111010 111010010 11111100100 1111011101 111100100 101100 11111101111101 110101100 110001111 1110 11111 1111101110 111001111001 1111000101110 11111010100110 11101110 11100 111000111111100 10000010 011100 1101110011100110 111110010 1001111010 11111100 1110000 110010 11010110101 1101111011110 11011100101011100 1110100101110 10111110 1000001011100101110 11010010001011100 11010110 11011110 110111010 1011110 110010 1011110110011100 10111111 11111011110 11011101 11111 111110111000 1111110 10101110 111110010110 1010010110 1101000111010 11111010101100 11001001010111100 1000101000 111111111011000 110110 110001101100001001100 11110110000100 11000 11111101011 111 1011100 10111100011000 111111111 111101101100 101000101100 10111101011 1101111100010 100110111 1100011101 11100111000 1110011 101100 1110100111 0110101110 1111111010111 11101011 110101 1110101011 11110010 110110101100 110111011011001 101010010101010 111000110010100 1101001000001 10100010001 11010110 1011110111010 10101 111111111 110111101 10011111011101 111010110 1010101010100 111110 11011010110 111101000 11101011011101 11010110001 111100 1111 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 153
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; mig, i, nogle, som, jeg, hver, det, fra, eller, og, en, den, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, at, nogle, da, fra, og, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word 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 paris, mig, selv are repeated).

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

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  • summary of Rom;
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  • history of its creation;
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