This is an analysis of the poem Morten Borup that begins with:

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

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXb cdcd XXXX XXXX XXcX cXcX XXXX XdXd cbcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXa bXXe XXXX XXdX XXXX XeXe XXXX XfXX baXa XXXX cXXd XfcX XXXe XXXX XXXX bXXX eXXX XXXX bXXX XXXg XgXg bdXd XeXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110001 11111 1101011 11111 11011 11011 111101 1111 1101011 101010 11111 1110101 1101110 110111 11110110 1101111 110110 1101011 1101110 1100110 111110 1111010 11000110 11111 110110 1101011 0111010 1101011 1110110 11111 111110 101110 1111101 111011 111111 11011110 110111 111011 1101111 1111011 11011110 1111111 1101110 0111010 1101010 110101 10010110 111101 11011100 110011 10011010 11111111 1101011 111111 11001011 11011011 11111 11011011 1101110 1101111 1101110 11111 1101110 11011001 1101011 1001111 1110100 110101 10011011 110110 111111 111101 111110 1101111 11100110 1111101 1101001 0101011 11110001 101111 1101101 110111 11011011 11101011 1101100 10011111 110110 100111 111111 101101 111111 11111 111111 100101 1101111 1111011 10111010 111011 1101110 0111011 110110100 11011010 1111010 111110 1110100 11111 111001 111011 1111111 1101111 111110 1111011 10111000 1111010 1001011 110101 11011010 11111 1111110 110110 1101101 1110101 111101 1000111 1011100 1100110 11110100 110110 1111010 110110 1111000 1101100 11011110 11011110 1101100 111101 11011111 1011100 1111111 1111101 0111110 11110011 100110110 1111111 1101100 110011 1101010 1100100 10010110 1101101 11001000 1111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 152
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, en are repeated.

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

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

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