This is an analysis of the poem Holgers Sang Om Hans Moder that begins with:
Jeg sprang til Verden — jeg var ej sen -
Jeg sprælled paa Moders Skød,...
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101111 111101 11101101 1101111 110111101 1101101 110111111 110111 111101011 1101111 1111101 111110 1111011 101111 11101111 1101111 110111111 1111101 11111101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, d are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word d at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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