This is an analysis of the poem Doris Og Fætter Jean that begins with:

Det er en ganske vakker Fyr
Hr. Jean, min yngste Fætter;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXaXbXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXcXXX XXXXbXXX XXdXcXcXXXXXXXXXXedefXXXXXXXeXeX XgXgXfXf XXXXhXhX XXeXaXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,4,16,8,32,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 11111 1110100 1101100 0111101 111100 10111011 11 101100 1101111 1011011 1111011 1101101 0111100 1111111 1101111 1101100 11110011 111100 1111111 1110 1101111 11111 11011101 110111 111111 111101 10010011 1100111 1111110 1101110 1110101 111110 1101111 1101100 111111 11100000 1011111 111111 110101 100111 11111101 10010 1110111 1111011 11011101 101110 111111 110001 1111001 11011 1111101 11011 1111111 110110 11110100 110110 1111101 11001 111111 11001 11001101 110110 11010011 1101110 110111010 110001 11110111 110100 1100011 111001 11110001 111101 1001111 111100 1101111 110110 1111100 101101 1111011 110101 0110011 1101010 1101011 1100110 111111 110111 11111110 1011111 11011111 11111 11010111 11011100 100110110 111100 1111011 110110 11101101 11111 1111111 011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 101
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, den, jeg, hver are repeated.

    The author used the same word det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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