This is an analysis of the poem Erik Og Ellen that begins with:
Jeg havde fast besluttet det, men vidste ei, hvordan
Jeg rigtig skulde gribe den Lilles Hjerte an;...
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXaa bXcX XXXX XXdX eeXc aaXf aAXX XXgf XXgf fXXX XXhh XXaA XXcX XXii jjcX XXbb XXXX XhXX ccXc XXkk XXcc XlXX XXXX XXXX Xkll aXXX gXXX dXXh XccX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100111110 1101111011 111111111111 11000101110111 111100100111 111010111111 11111111111 11111010110 111110011111 1011011111 111101110101 111111111110 111100111110 111111011111 111110011111 1100111111 11110011000 111111111 1101111110 11111111101 111110101011 11011111111 1111111111 11111101 1111111001 111110110 111111111101 11111011010 11111111111 111111101 111101111 11101111111 0111110110100 110111110011 11001111101 111110111110 1011111111011 11011100110101 11100111111 111110111110 1111111100 11010010111 111111111111 11111110101 11111111101 111111001 10110101111111 1111010111111 01110111111 1110111111 11111111111 111111101 111110110011 11111111011 111111111 1101111101 11111011101 11111111011 110111101111 111101101 110101011101 111111111 11111111 1111111111 11111111101 1111111101 111111011111 110111111111 1111110110111 11011011010 110101110111 1101101011110 110111110101 100111110111 11110101111111 111101011011 1101110110111 11110111111 010111011000 111011011111 111101110101 1111111110111 11111110111 1100111111 110111101 111111111101 111111111 1101110110101 1111111111 11110111111 11111011111 110111110111 110111011111 11110111111 1111011110111 1111111111 1110111111 1111101100111 110111110101 11111111111 1111101111 1111101111 110010110111 111111111101 1101010110001 1111101101 1101010110111 1110101111 1111111101 110101110101 111111101110010 11011111101 11111110111 11111011110 11011101111111 1101111111 111111011111 11111111111 11011111011 1100110110111
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, hun, saa, og, t, h, den, r, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, d are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words r, meer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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