This is an analysis of the poem Niels Ebbesen that begins with:
Hvi seer Du, danske Mand,
Saa undrende mod Svejtserland?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011 1101100 101111111 010110 1101100 1111111 1111000 1111110 0100110011 101101 11010111 1101011010 101111 11011101 1101110101 110100 11110 1100011101 110101 110101 1101110111 11011 011101 1111100 1111110 111101 11111 10011 1101111 1100100 111111010 111101 111001010 111101 1001101 101101011 11111010 10101 110110110 1111100 111100010 1101011000 111101010 11111 1110010 11110101 11011100 1100101 1101111 1111 11001110 101110111 11011001 1101001 1101111 11101 1101111 111011110 0111111 1110101 11001111 110111 11010 11110101 111101 110111111 1111011 11011 01110101 11101 110111 101111 11111101 1001010 100100101 11101111 1110111 11111101 11001101 11100 011011 011101 01010101 01101111 1101011 11110 1111100 111011 1111001 111110111 11001001 1111 11111 111110 11001100 1101111101 111101 1110100 1101101001 11111 1101101 111111010 11111 11000011 101110100 111001 111111 11011011 11110 1111101 11000110 111101 1101111 11011101 111100 110101 110001111 11111 1110111 1111110 11111 1111011 10101111 110111 11011 110111011 111101 111111 1101111101 11010 1111001 111110001 100011 11010101 11111101 100101 1011101 1110011 11011 110111 111011101 110101 1111011 111111100
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 250
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 144
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; og, de, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
The author used the same word som 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 rde, den, nder, mper, de, re, der, rdet, mpe, dre are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.
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