This is an analysis of the poem Første Døgn that begins with:

Farvel, farvel da, du røgindhyllede Tue!
Med dine Taarne, de lider højere Halmstraae....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,33,7,34,179,5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101001 11101011 1010101111110 10111001010 1101001011010 110110111010 1111011011100110 1011110101010 1100111010000 11001111010 1010 100 11011010 1111111011010 111101001001 1101111101 101111101111 10 1101111101100 1 1111101010100 110110101110 11100110111110 11000111110 1001111110010 1111110001 11100111011 11111110011 10111011010 1111011011110 11111100110011 1111011111100 111011111110 11010101011 1110111110110 11011100101 1010010111 111101111101 1110111000 11111111010 1111011001 1110111111 111001111001 1001000110010 10 111011010010 111001100010 11001111010 110101011011 1111101011 110101110110 100 1110011111010 1011001110110 111100101100 110110101101 11011101101 110111010110 1101111011010 10101101110 11010011001 111001111110 1011011101 110010111110 1101100001101 1011001101100 110110110 1110111100010 101111111010 110010101001 111111110010 1111101011 101011011011 1111001001 11001111000 101111111010 1111111010 111111001100 11110101101 1111011111110 101100110001 11101101010 11010011110 111101011010 1111011101010 10 110111101001 10011100101 1111111011 1110110001010 1100101101011 11011100110 1110101111010 11010011010100 010111001110 1110000101 11101101010 1111111101 110111010110 111011101010 10111111101 100101110110 11001111010 110011110 11101110110 11111101010010 1101011101 11111111 110010010101 1111111010 110101111010 110111110110 11101101110 110111111010 1111110101 11100101100 1101011101101 1001010110110 1101111010 11111010010 111110111 100101101100 01101101010 11101111011 101101111111 111001111010 1100011000010 11000100101 110111 1111110111 11111110101 1110111111010 11110111 111010101 111101111 11101110010 110101001001 11011111101 101010101111 11110111101 1110011001010 11110111101 1111110110 11111001011 11011011010110 10010100110 11010110110 110111111010 1101110101 111111110 11101001101 1011101010 1011010110010 111010110 111011011 110101101011 110111101 1010110111010 0101111110 111101101 1111111110 11110101101010 1111111110 111111101 111111111 1111111111 110111011 11111011101 1111101101 1101101011001 11011101110 10010110101 11001111001 110111110111 011111101 11111011011 11011111001 11011110110 110111011 1111101010 111001101010 11011101010 11010110101 10111000110 110100111011 111011101111 111111101 111101101111 1111101001 1111110111 11011111101 111011111010 1111110101 11111111 11111010110 1110110001 11010111110 111111101010 1101111110110 1100111011010 1101011011110 11000110101 11011011010110 11011110111 100111101 1111101001 0111111111 101001111001 110110110101 11011110110 1001111010110 10111110110 11101110001 101101110010 11001100101 11011101011 1110110010 1111110101 11001111010 101111111 11011100111010 110110101010 110101110010 11110011011 111011001011 11101101001 11111111011 11110011101 1001111011010 111100101100 11011011101001 11001 01111 110011101101 101111110 10101101010 0101101001 01111111011 11111001011 11011100110 11011100011 110011101 110111110010 10101111010 1101101101010 1111011010110 1111111001 10110110111 11010110101 1011001011000 11011101110 101011010010 10110111111 1100111101 0101101111 11011111110 11111101111 10111111010 1011011110100 11111101010 11111110110 11010101101010 11110101110 111011011 110110 11011 11011 11010110 111110 10110 101111 1111 10011010 11100110 1100010 11111 10111 11111 11111110 111111110 1011111 101111 11011 1110 110011000 110100000 10101 1100100 1101010 1111 1111111 101111 111011 1101010 11110 11101 111101010 11111010 1101111 110110 110110 11100 11010101 1101111 11110001 11111 11011 110111 1101110 111101000 1101001 10011 110001 11001 1111101 110101 1101001 11111 110101 1111 1111110 11001100 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 936
  • Average number of words per stanza: 173
  • Amount of lines: 323
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, end, der, til, see, den, i, saa, som, fra, du, h, at, ej, de, skal are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, hvo, da, han, de, naar are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases den, de connect the lines.

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  • summary of Første Døgn;
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