This is an analysis of the poem Du Lykkelige, Spæde Dreng! that begins with:
Du lykkelige, spæde Dreng!
Tilgiv, ifald jeg dig misunder....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011 101011010 1011111 110010010 111111 110111 1001101 1010001 1101111 1101001 10110011 1110101 11111111 11011101 111111 11111011 11111001 11011110 11111111 101101000 1111111 1111100 11110111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; mig, har are repeated.
The author used the same word hun at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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