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

Slig Klagesang til Taarer Alle rører,
Men Skjæbnen havde tillukt Grevens Ører....

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 176,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011011 11110101 10110111 111110101 111110101 11011101 1101110101 111110110 110101110 101111111 110101111 01111111 11001101100 11110111010 1100101111 111110111 1100010110 110110110 110001100011 11111111000 1111111100 110001001 11001011010 11111101100 110111100 11110011 11101101 111111111 111111011 11110111 110110011 1111010011 1111101111 111111111 11111100 110011111 11111101 111111 1110011010 111010101 110111100 11011110 11011111010 10101111 111111101 1101010101 1111001100 111110100 111011000 111011110 111010110 1101010101 11011101 111011010 10101010 11101111 11101110010 100110101 11100101 1101011010 1101100101 11011110 1111110110 1111011101 10110000 11110111010 1001011100 11111010 111011010 111101111 110011101 11110110 110101101 1111110010 11001101110 11101001 11011110 100111110 10111110 110111110 01011101010 11011111001 1101111111 110011011 111110110 11111101 11111010 10100101010 11111010 111111110 11100101100 1101011101 0101011101 110110101111 1110111 11111111 1110011010 1111001100 11110011000 11111011 111011101 11110100 1011101110 111011010 11011101100 11010111001 1011110111 1111001000 101111101 111011110 111111 111101010 1011011110 100101011 1101111010 11101111 0110011111 1101111 111011110 111101111 111101011 111011010 101100111010 1101011111 111110111 1111101 11100111 111101111 111111101 11110111110 1010011110 11011110 1101111101 111110111 110111101 1100111101 111110011 0111010110 11001110000 110110110 11001100010 1011111 101011100 11111110 1101101100 11100111 11100101 101001110 11111010 111101111 1100111101 110101110 1011011111 1101011100 1110011101 111001111 111111101 1100010111 110101101 11101011 11111110 111111101 11110100 1001011101 110001110 1111110001 11110011 11111110 1111010001 110011010 111110010 1101111 101110111 11111100 110111001 11010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6861
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1278
  • Amount of lines: 176
  • 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; i, den, nu are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rer, je, kke, re, sen, ler, kker, j are repeated).

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