This is an analysis of the poem Ja, Du! Ifald.. that begins with:

Ja, du! ifald jeg kunde dykke ned
bag Horisonten med den Sol, der daler,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaX aa XXXXX XXXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,2,5,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101111 11000111110 11111110 111111111 110111010 11111111 111011111 111101101 111110001 1111110001 1100111001 11011111 1111111111 111111110 1111111100 1111101 1111110101 1110111110 1101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).

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