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

Det er kun en Pige, der synger,
i Efteraarets Graa...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XAbCXdX XaaX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XacX eeXXXXXXX fXXg XXXX XAbCXdX fXfgXgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,4,13,4,9,4,4,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111110 110001 1101110 110101 11 11011 110110101 1001010111 1111010 1101000 1100101001 111 111011 11111100 110011011 11011111000 100110110 100111100 11011011 1010001 1101101010 11001100101 1010101010 111011010 1100111101 1111111 1111111 10010111101010 111 1101011 111110111 101011100 111111 1010111 101001 11111101 110101101 111111000 01000101 11111011001 110111111 11101111 11111100 11101111010 11111111 10111110 110001 1101110 110101 110 11011 1101101101 1001010111 111010 111000 1100101001 11111111 111101101 110011101 1111111 11111110 11011101 1100011011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 63
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun, slette, breder, sig are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word men 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 de, ham, nge are repeated).

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