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

Hvorledes Had af Elskov kan udbryde,
Hvor rædsom Riv af ringe Ting kan flyde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbbXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXXbbXXXXXXXXXXeeXfXXXXXXXdXXXXXeXXXXXXXeXcXXXXXXecXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXbXeXXXXXXXaaXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbXeXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 139,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001110110 11111111 11011011 11101100 1101111 11011111111 11111001111 1111101 11111 1110 111110110 111111110 1111011100 1111111 110101111 11101101 110111111010 100101010 111111100 110011101 110001101 1001110110 1111001010 110110110 1001011100 1111111 1110011100 1101110101101 111101011 110011111 111111110 110001010 11111010 1111101101 1101111100 11110111100 111001101 10100111 1111011001 1010001101 011011001 11111110 11010100010 11111110100 1111011101 1111011101 111001100 11111111010 11011011010 1111101010 110110011 1111011111 1110111101 11111111 1101110110 1110011101 111011000 10111000110 01101101 111001101 111111110 1101011100 100110101 11111101 10001111 1111100100 11111110 1101011001 111101110 110101011 111011010 1101001000 110011110 11010110010 1100110101 1100111101 111011000 1111011000 11011101 110101111 111111111 1010110100 110110110 1100011101 1110111 111011001 1101101 11111101 1101110100 11101010 1101111 11011111 10111101 111101111 111011101 111010111 11011111 111011100 1101010100 1101011000 1110111 11101001 1101101111 1101001111 1101100011 1111101010 111101111 110010100 1101110001 111111011 111001111 111011001 1111110110 111110111 1101111101 1111011111 10011111010 111111001 11111111 111111101 111011101 11111100 100100100 1101100 1100100110 101010100 101001000 100010011 110111111 11001001 1101010111 101011001 110111100 11101010110 1111110101 01111101 1101011101 1101111010 1101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5446
  • Average number of words per stanza: 985
  • Amount of lines: 139
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; re, en, og, hun are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, naar, hun are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, kker, r, de, st are repeated).

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