This is an analysis of the poem Huusnisserne Her I Vort Slot that begins with:

Huusnisserne her i vort Slot
Fra deres Smuthuller titte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX aXaX XXaX XXXX XcXc XXXX dXdX XXdX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000111 1101001 1111111 11111 101111 11110 001110 11110100 0111111 110111 0111101 1111 11011111 11110 1111111 11001 11011100 110111 11011101 1101101 01011011 11111 11110111 11011100 1101111 1011000 110111011 1110100 1111001 111110 11000111 1111100 1111111 1111000 11100111 111100 1101111 1001100 1111111 11010100 11101111 11111 1111111 1101 111101001 110111 1111111 11111 1101011 110110 11010011 110100 1110101 111101 11010111 1111110 11111101 11111 0110111 11111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, r, jeg are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words en, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Huusnisserne Her I Vort Slot;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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