This is an analysis of the poem Skønt Al Ting Er Rent For Den Rene that begins with:

Skønt al Ting er rent for den rene,
jeg afskyr den kommende Scene...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXa XXX XXX XXX XXb ccX Xdd adX XdX XbX XXX XXX XXX XXX XaX XXX XXX XXX eXX aXX Xee XdX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111011101 1101101 1101001 11011010 1101111 11010010 111111 1111000 110001 1111110 1111010 110100 111111 1111111 11111111 11011 111011 111110 11011100 110111 111110 11011111 01011110 11101 1110 01001111 1010110 10111110 11111101 11011000 11010100 11111000 110001000 10011000 11010 111101 1101110 11110000 010010110 11111111110 11111000 0101111 1111110 0111101 101101 011100 1001110 11110100 1111110 01111001 11111101 001111 1010011 1010000 1111001 1111111 110111100 1111011 111100 100111110 1111110 1110101 1000111 110100 1111011 11001 111111 1111011 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 23
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 86
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 69
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; det, n, jeg are repeated.

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

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

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