This is an analysis of the poem Forsang that begins with:

Eensom jeg laae paa min lynggro'de Bakke,
Stormenes Brusen hen over mig gik,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX abab XXXX XcXc XXXX XXXX XXXd aeae fXXX XXXX gaXX XdXX XXge XhXh XgXX XXXX XXXf XXXX XbXb aXaX eXeX XXXX XbXX dXXX XXXX
  • 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: 101111101 1001011011 101011011 11111111 1111110 110101101 1011001010 1111001 110101110 101011001 1111111101 110110101 10110001 11111001 100101001 1111111 10111110 1011101 100111111 100111001 111111 111111101 11101111 111001011 101101010 11101001 111001100 101111101 111111010 100110101 11110100010 1011101 111111111111 1011110011 1001011111 1101101 11111101 111011001 11110011 0111101 11100101 1011010110 101110010 1111111 111011010 111101101 1011001100 101111011 1011110010 10111000 1111111110110 10111001 10111111 110101101 101101111 11101101 111010111 10110101 111101001 100110110 1001011111 101111001 1111011001 101111101 1111111011 111001101 10111101 1111111 111011001 111011001 1001010111 11101101 1111111001 10111001 111101101 101101011 1101011010 11101101 11111111010 101101111 1011111111 101101101 11100111 11111001 11101101 11111101111 1111011011 100110111 100101010 11110001 11100111 111101110 1011101011 111011001 101111010 101111011 10110111 110100101 11101011 11101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 25
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; den, og, jeg, han, sin, min are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word r is repeated.

    The author used the same word f at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Forsang;
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  • history of its creation;
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