This is an analysis of the poem Flugten Til Amerika that begins with:

Dengang da jeg var en lille en,
Og havde begyndt min Skole,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX cXXX XXXX XXXa cXXX dXXX XXXX eXXX XfXf dXXX XXXX XXXX bXbX XXXX XeXX XXXX eXXX XXbX XaXX XXXX aXXa XXXX XXXX
  • 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,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111111 111011 1111111 110111 11111011 1111110 11111111011 1101111100 110010111 101110110 11101101 111110110 11011111 10110000 10111111 101001000 1100111111 11111110 11110110 11111110 11111011 1111110 11011110 111110 1101110100 11110100 110111101 11010110 100111001 1111111 1100111001 1010011 110010111 1111110 00111101 1111110 11111011 11011010 110110111 1100110 111010100 1111110 11111010 1111010 111110100 1001101 111101100 111000 11010110 110110 101101111 010111111 1000011011 11101 1110010 111101 10011001 11100 1100011011 1101100 110111010 1101101 110110111 1101001 11011101 110100 111011110 1110111 1111110111 10111100 11000111 11111000 110011010 1111110 1111100 11010110 110001111 11011110 111111111 11011000 111010 111101 110101111 11111 011101111 111110110 11111010 1101110 1001011 111111 110001011 1100101 11101011 11001000 110111111 11011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, jeg, hun, paa, man, er, den, min are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, da, hun are repeated.

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