This is an analysis of the poem Til Albert Gottschalk that begins with:

Jeg sender fra det faste Land
et Bud dig ud til Sundets Sprøjt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXbX CXBD bXXX XXXX XeXX XXXX eXXX CXBD fXXf XXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 11111101 1011111 111111000 0101110 1111011 111111 11111 011111110 111110 11001101 1110110 11011101 110111 1111100 11111 11011111 1001101 1101010 1111111 1001100 11011101 1101111 1100110 1101100 11111111 11110111 1101010 1001111 11010100 11011111 1011010 011111110 111110 11001101 1110110 10100111 10110111 1111101 1110111 11111101 11011111 1110111 1111010 11110111 11111 01010101 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; en, og are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words du, saa 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 jt is repeated).

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