This is an analysis of the poem En Faders Testament Til Sønnen that begins with:
Hør mig, min Dreng!
Forinden jeg bortreiser...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaX XXXbaXaX bcXXXcXX dXdXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 1001100 11111100 1101010110 1101111111 1111110110 111110111 11110101110 110110111 111111101 1001111100 1110110100 1011011111 10101111110 11011101 111110110 11001101110 1101110101 111111101 010010101 1111000011 10110111000 111111111 11111111110 11111011 1110101110 1101110101 11110101110 1101111111 1011010011 110111111 1111011001 11011011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, med, i are repeated.
The author used the same word b at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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