This is an analysis of the poem Ærværdig Provst Jørgen Skidtmads that begins with:

Ærværdig Provst Jørgen Skidtmads
og Mikkel Rævetamp...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXcX XXXX XcXX XdXd XXXX eXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXX XfXX XeXX XfXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 11010 0111110 111111 011100 111111 0111100 011111 1111 11011010 1101101 11011111 111110 11101 1101100 11011 111110 10101 01110 10011 1111110 110111 11111010 10111011 110110 1111 1101110 111101 11111 111101 1101110 1111011 111000 111011 10101111 1110 1111100 110111 111010 1101101 100111 101111 11010110 10011011 1111110 11111111 111110100 11111 0111101 11011 100101 1110 11110110 1101101 11011 1111110 110111 101011 1110110 110111 11000110 111110 111101 1111001 1111101 111010 110101110 110101 11111 1111001 111110 111110 11111 111111 1110110 110110 1110010 0111101 111101 11111 110110 11111 1101111 1011101 1111110 110111 111110 11100 1111001 111111 1111110 11110 1111110 1111001 101111010 110100 11111010 111111 110110 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, n, m are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words jeg, det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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