This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Seer Dit Lille Barneansigt Grant that begins with:

Jeg seer dit lille Barneansigt grant:
De brune Kinder, som Dig ei behaged,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXaX XbX XbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11111001 0110111100 11011111110 1111010101 11111001100 010111001 011111111 11011111100 1011110111 1111111111 11001111 101111111 1111111111 111001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; du is 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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