This is an analysis of the poem Politisk Gnavpose that begins with:

At Politiken er et Spil,
Det tror jeg, Ingen nægte vil....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXbbXXXXXX XXaXccXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXX cXXXXXXdXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXX XXeXXXXX ddXXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXXdXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,13,20,4,25,8,8,6,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11000011 1111011 1110110110 1111 1111010011 1111 111100 111001 1101111011 1100011100 11011100 1000010 0100 11011101 11011100 11010011 1011111 110110 11010 110111111 1111110 1101011101 11011111110 110010111 110101 11011 10 0101010 111011 1111 1101101 111110 1110 0110101 1111101 100001110 01110101 111101101 11111 11011111 11100 111001100 1111100 1101 111010 110101 111001 111 111 1111101 101101 11011111 1111001 110101110 11110111 1101111110 1000111110 11011010 1101111110 1101111 1101100 1101000101 111111 111100100 1111111001 101101 11011001 011010 10100101 11011001 111001010 111110 110011110 111111100 11111101 111111010 1111111 1001111 1110101 11010111 1101101101 11011101 11110111111 110110011101 11111111 011101 10010 1110 011010 110 11010101 1111110101 111100111 111101111 110001101 1101 11101 101100 1111101110 111110 10111111 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 102
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; det, man, den are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gen, kker, g, re are repeated).

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  • summary of Politisk Gnavpose;
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