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

Den første Vandringsmand:
Tre Mile gik en Vandringsmand,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaX bXXc XXdX XXef XXbX XeXX X XXfX XXbX XXXc eXfX XXgX X bXXb XXXh hXXX hXXX XXXX XXXX XXhX XXXX XXXc XeeX X XXXX dXXX XXbX dXaX XXXX bXbX gXXX X XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100 1111100 111111 1110001 1110 11011101 11110 01111001011 1110010 1111101 1101100 111111111 11011011 1111010 111001 111101111 111101 111111 1001111 0101101011 11111100 10111100 11111 11101100 110110000 110100 110110100 11100111 111101 111111 110111111 1111101 1101111101 1111 1111101 111110 1111110 1101110 11011111 11111 1111001011 10001 1111100 10100111 0111111 111111 1110 1001111101 11111 1001011 110111 11110111 101111 10101111 1110110 1101111101 11001110 111111111 11011000 0101011101 1111011 111101001 11111 11011011001 110101 110111011001 11001111 111101010 101101 11111110100 110011101 110110111 1101111 111010101 11110011 11111111 1011101 101111011 110111 11001011 111100 11110011 11000110 010111111 11101 01110101 1101101 11010 1101111101 110100010 1100011111 1100110 1011101011 1111110 1111111111 110111100 100001011 11011001 11011111 1011000 11011111 11111 110110111 11101 11011100 1111110 11101101 101011010 10101111 110111 1111111101 101110 1101011111 110111100 110110111 111010 11 110111111 1101011 101111110 101010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 114
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 121
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, han, og, jeg, med are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words han, jeg 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 vandringsmand is repeated).

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