This is an analysis of the poem Sangen Om Sarah Brown that begins with:

Hun er død, den dejlige,
I kender Navnet!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX aXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 11010 11100 11010 11000 10110 110110 1111 11101 11111 1111 11111 110110 11010 11111 111 11011 11110 110110 1011 1111 11010 11011 11111 1110 01100 11001 10011 11010 110000 1110 101110 10110 110110 1111 110110 11101 0101 11110 111011 11010 11010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nu is repeated.

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