This is an analysis of the poem De Fattiges Udj Odense Hospital that begins with:

Stormægtigste Monarch, næst Gud vor Lyst og Glæde
Forlad mig at ieg i dit Kongeskiød maa græde...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXaXXXaXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXbbXXXXXXXXXdXXXXdXXXbbdXddXXXdXXXXXXccXXXXXXXXaaXd XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 80,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011111111 101111110011 11111111111 11101100111 1111101101 11110111101 11011110001 101100110101 11111111011 11010111111 111101110101 11110111011 0101111101010 11111110101 11011111111 111111110111 010110110011 101111110011 11010111101 1111111111 011111111111 01111111111 011101111101 11111100111 01011111110 11010111110 110111010101 101101101101 0101101111110 111100111010 1111111111 110111110111 011100010111 11101111101 110111110101 1001011011 0101111111010 110111100110 11010111011 110101111111 110101111101 1101011111 11010111101 101101110111 0101100111 11010011111 11011110011 11011111111 101101110110 111111011000 011111110111 110010111101 11110111111 01010110011 1101111111 111111011 11111111101 11110111011 11101111101 11010011001 11000101101 101101101101 11111111111 1101011101 010111011111 111100110110 101111111 11010111111 11101110011 11111111101 11011111110 11111011111 11111111111 11011110111 11011111100 110101101100 10111111111 1111111011 1101111101 110101111101 10110100000 101001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1907
  • Average number of words per stanza: 389
  • Amount of lines: 82
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, en, af, som, een, for, skal, aldrig, det, saa, hielp are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, om, og, for, saa are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, nder, ster, re, ye are repeated).

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