This is an analysis of the poem Hjemreisen that begins with:

Din Moder mener selv, at bedst
Det anstaaer sig og egner,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXX bXXXa XXcXX XXXXX cdceX XXXXX XXXXX faXXX XXgXc XXXXX XXXXX XXffX XXXXX XXXXX aXfXe hXhXX XXcXX XXXXX XeXXe iXXXX gXgXX XXXXX jcjjX bXbbX cXccX XXXXX fXfXX XXiXX XXcXX XXXeX XXXfa XXXbX XXdXX kXkXX XXXbX XXcXe XaXca XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 1101110 1111100 1111101 1111100 11111100 1101100 1110111 11001010 111010 11111101 11011000 11110111 1101111 1111110 1110001 11111110 10111101 1111111 1101110 1111111 1111 111111 1111011 11011 11111101 11110 1101100 110101111 11101 0111101 11011100 1111101 1111100 1111000 111111 011110 11010111 11100101 11100 11000111 1111110 110101110 1111111 111101 1101111 11011 11011101 110001101 11011 110011101 111110 111101 1111101 1101111 1111111 111110 1111111 11011101 1111110 11011101 1111110 100101111 11010101 01011110 1101111 1100011 11110101 1110111 01011 1110100 1001110 11011111 1110101 1100110 11101111 111110 11110110 11111111 11111100 111101101 111101 1111111 1111111 111110 1101111 11110110 100101101 1101011 111010 11010111 1111010 1111111 11111011 1001110 0111111 111110 1101100 111111 111101 1111111 1101111 1111111 1111011 11010100 11111101 110111 1110110 1111011 1101100 1101011 11101 111011 1111111 1111 111111 1101101 111111 111111 111101 1111101 01110 111111 11111101 11010 1001111 1101111 11010111 11111101 111110 1111101 11001 1111111 1111101 111111 1101111110 10011110 111111 11111101 111101 111111 11011 11111101 11100111 11111 1111111 111111 11010110 1111111 11111 1101111 11100 11010011 11011101 1101110 1111111 1111010 11110111 110111 11011100 110011111 111110 1111111 11110100 11000100 111111 1111000 1101101 111111 110110 10111111 111110 11111111 111101001 11100100 11011101 111010 110111101 11011111 1101010 1111111 1101010 11111011 111111 111110 11110100 1111000 11110111 1111101 1101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 38
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 190
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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, for, den, gr, r, han, hans, var, af, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, den, da, paa, hans, og, der, jeg are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Hjemreisen;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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