This is an analysis of the poem Søstad that begins with:
Omflydt af Hav, med lange lave Kysters
indskaarne Løb, hvor tunge Broer vade,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XaX XXX bab XaX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111110 10111101 1101110111 1111101 11111000 1110010 1111011101 110111111 1111011101 11110011110 111010101 11010101100 10010111111 11101001010 11110100 1111001000 110101011 111011100 111111100 1111010000 1101101111 11111101101 110011111 11010101010 11111111 1101111111 111110011 11111101010 11101111 11011111110 011111101 011111111 1111010100 11010111110 1011011100 1110001100 111110111 1111111000 100111001 1111011101 1111111110 111111101 1101110101 11111000 100111001 1101010110 111010010 1110111010 111111111 1111111111 110100101 111011011 1111111111 110101100 1111111010 110111111 11111110 11111010 110011100 11111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; og, med, hun, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words paa, er, det 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.
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