This is an analysis of the poem Der Dandser En Pige For Hver Mands Dør that begins with:
Der dandser en Pige for hver Mands Dør,
hun dandser i lette, flagrende Slør;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111110 11011101 110111111 1101101011 110111100 11111111 11111111 11111111 1101111110 1101101101 1101111011 11011111011 1101101100 11111111 11111111 1110111010 1100101111 1101101100 1101111111 1101111001 1101101100 11010111 11101111 1101101101 101111101 11011011110 1101011011 111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; hun, for, og, sjunger, dandser are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, som are repeated.
The author used the same word der 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 r, n are repeated).
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