This is an analysis of the poem Børnene I Maanen that begins with:

Hør mit Barn et Eventyr!
Seer du hist de sorte Skyer...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX bbaa XXcc XXXc ddXX XXXX XXXX dXXX eeaX XXXc XXff XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111100 101011 111011 111110 111111 101011 101011 111111 1011101 1110111 101101 1010111 111101 11111 11111110 10111110 11111 110100 1011111 1010111 101111 11111 111110 11111 11010 11101 1010111 110111 11101111 1111101 10111 11110 11111 1010110 111100 111100 11111 111111 111101 1011101 101110 101111 1111110 0110110 1011101 1110101 1011010 11111010 101101 1010101 10101110 00110100 101101 1010101 11111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; b, rn are repeated.

    The author used the same word o 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 nne, kken are repeated).

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  • summary of Børnene I Maanen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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