This is an analysis of the poem Dend Ii. Sang that begins with:

Kom, Siæl, og lad os græde,
Ach! græd, mit kiød og du,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXb cXXXXXdX XeXXXeXX XeXXXXXX XXXfXeXe XXXeXXdX XXXXgXgX XXhXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXdfXfX iXXehjXj XXXXXXXX XdXXXeXe XXXXhXXX XfXfXeXe XXXbXjXX XjXgXege XeXXgXXX XXXXhXXX XiXXXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 11111110 111101 11111 11111 111001 111111 111101 11111 110101 111101 11111 111101 11011 111101 110010 1110110 10011 1111100 110111 110111 111101 111101 11101 111111010 110101 0111110 10111 0101100 01011 11110 111101 111110 111101 1111 111111 1111100 110100 1100110 1111101 110011 110111 111111 110111 110111 110100 110111 11111 1110010 11101 1111010 1111111 111110 10110 111010 11111 100111 11100 111111 101110 110111 1111 11110 110110 11110 11110 1101010 11111 1101110 110111 11110111110 110111 11111 11111 11111 110101 110111 100101 111101 1111111 100111 10111 100011 01011 10011 11101 11011 11011 110110 11011 1111110 11111 111110 11111 111110 110100 110110 110111 110110 111110 11111 110111 11111 11111 11111 110001 110111 1111111 11111 11101 111111 111111 11011 10111101 101101 11111 1100100 111111 110110 101101 110110 101111 111101 100111 111101 11011 10011 110101 1100010 111101 1111010 11010110 111110 110111 1111010 111111 111101 11101 011111 11100 1101110 1111 1101100 11101 111110 11111 11110111 10111 1111111 111111 110111 110101 111101 11111 11101 111101 111111 110101 11111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, t, er, jeg are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words er, det, jeg are repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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