This is an analysis of the poem Vaaren Og Træet that begins with:

Jeg véd et Sted et Frugttræ, som visner uden Frugt.
Det blomstrer vel hver Pinse for Vaarens Aasyn smukt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXXX XaX XbX ccX dXX XaX XXb aXX XXXb XaX XeX XXX XXX XXXb XXX XXX XeX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX aXX XXX XXX XXd bff XX XXXX XXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,2,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110101 110111110101 1101111111 11111111111 11110111110 11111110111 111111 1001 110111011100 11110011011 111111011110 11011011111 10110111101 1111110110 11111100101 111111111 11101011111 11010101110101 11101111101 11111010111 110110111010 1000110111110 100011011001 11011110101 1111101111010 110111111111 111110110111 1111111101 1101010011101 111101011111 1111110111 111111 1001 111010101100 11110101101 1111101110 11011111111 1101111110111 0111111101 111101111110 11101011100 1111110111111 111101011111 111111011011 110101010011 1111010111101 11011101011100 111111 1001 111110111001 10011101101 11010001111010 101100111110 1011000110100 01011001110 11111101111 111111111110 111101111 0101011101110 1111111100 0111100111110 11111111111 1111110111100 1111011110111 11101110111 111011111001000 11110111111 11011110110 1111111111 11111111111 11110111110 11111110111 110111011111 11110101011 11110111111 1111111111 1111110110111 101111011111000 11101001111 11010001010010 11010111001 11111110001 11111110101 1111101111111 1111010110111 110101110110 1101111011 0100101110 111010111111 11010001011101 100 1100011011 11111110101 11111111011 11111011010 110001111111 11111111011 11111110111010 11011111101 1110111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 104
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; et, d, tre, den, man, og, i, det, n, tr, mod, de, en, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, imidlertid, man, det, jeg 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kom, den are repeated).

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