This is an analysis of the poem Et Dansk Kløverblad that begins with:

Steenvinkel, Rostgaard og Gerner,
Saa hed de trofaste Tre,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXb XcXc XdXd XXXX XdXX XXXX XXXX XdXd XXXX XeXe XXXd XdXX XXXX XbXb XXdX aXaX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XdXX XcXc XdXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010110 110101 1111010 11101 110011 011111 110101 1101001 111101 111001 1101110 111101 111110 111101 11110010 11011 1111110 111111 11111010 111000 011111 111011 1111101 100101 111110 110011 1111010 011111 0110011 111111 1101111 111111 1101110 1111011 01110110 111011 110101 110011 0111010 11111 111111 111100 11110100 111011 111101 1111111 1101111 11010110 11011000 111011 11110110 11110010 11111010 110101 111011 11111 1111110 1111011 111101 1101111 1111110 111101 11010110 111111 11110110 1101000 11001110 1111011 011011 1101011 011111 11111010 011001 11101 1101110 110100 100110 111101 1101011 111001 11011110 111111 11101010 1111110 1111011 111001 111111 111000 11110100 1110001 11000100 1111 11110100 111111 1110010 110100 1111101 111011 1101111 1111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; de, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, de, i are repeated.

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

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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