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

Der var en Tid, da Hellas som en Have
Stod signet trindt med Blomster og med Frugt:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXX XXXXXX XbXbXX XcXXXd XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXeXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXc XXXbXXXX XXXXeecX XeXdXX XfXfXX XbXbXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,8,8,8,8,8,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110111 1101110111 111110111 111010111 110011000 100100111 111111011 111001001 111111101 111011001 110011011 11011001 11111111010 11011111 1111110100 110111001 110011011 1111111 111111011 110110001 1100110101 100111011 11011011 01101001 11111110110 10110010 1101110100 1111011101 1101110111 11011111 11110001 100111100 1101110010 11011101 111000101 1101001111 1101100101 11010110100 10001010100 11011011010 11111111 110110011 1101101111 1011101101 1101101001 110110001 100111010 11111011010 11110011 111001101 1000110101 1001011101 11011010010 010111010 111111110 1111101 100110111 1101001101 11010110110 110110100110 11011011001 0111101 0111110001 01111001 01111001 111101101 110011010110 1110110100 110110111 11010101 1101101010 110011110 11111010 11010111110 11011011110 11010110110 10101100010 111110110 11000111010 11000111 11001101010 110110100 1110111 011111101 1011111 11010011 10011011 1110101000 11101001010 11001001 11001001010 11001111 011001011 11111101 11101000100 11010111010 11001101010 11011101100 1101010111 111001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 262
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • 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; og, da, var, det, i, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, da, det, de are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ved, nke, nker, den, ver, nket are repeated).

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