This is an analysis of the poem I Skanderborrig Enge that begins with:

I Skanderborrig Enge,
alt ved den blanke Sø,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbXb cdce XXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX XdXe cfcX XaXX XXXX XXXX fXXg XXXX XXXa fXXX gXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 110001 11111 10101011 11111 11011 11011 111101 1111 1101110 110110 11110110 11011111 110110 1101011 1101110 110011 111110 1111010 11000110 11111 1101010 1101011 0111010 1101011 1111101 111011 1111111 1101111 110111 111010 1101111 110110111 11011110 1111111 111110 0111010 1111010 110101 10010110 1011101 101011100 110011 10011010 11111111 10101011 111111 11001011 11011011 1101110 111111 1101110 11011001 1101011 1001111 1110100 110101 111110 1101111 11100110 1111101 11011010 11111 1111110 110110 1101101 1110101 1111011 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; han, skal, og, med are repeated.

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

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

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