This is an analysis of the poem Brev Fra Kiel Til Anna Mathea that begins with:

Min lille Kjæreste paa otte Aar!
Jeg hilser dig fra disse Egne;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaX XbXXXXccX cdXXXXXXb XXXXXXeeb fXfXaaaXd XXXXXXeeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 1101111 101111111 1111100 011111011 111111111 1001 1111 110111011 1010011101 1111110 110111001 110101110 11100111 111101101111 1111 1111 11000111 1011001101 1101111 01011111 1111011 111010110 110111110 110 1111 1110110 111001100 11111110 1111111 1101110 110001110 110101111 010 1101 01111110 011011101 1111110 1111011011 110101100 1101111111 111111111 1111 1110 11111101 1111111111 11111001 11110101 1110101 1111011101 111111111 1101 0101 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, hvor, og, med, de, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, de, jeg are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines k, g are repeated).

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