This is an analysis of the poem Læg Vedbendranken Om Min Hat that begins with:

Læg Vedbendranken om min Hat
Med dine kjære, kjære Hænder!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XbXb XXXX XXXX Xccc aXXX
  • 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: 11000111 11111 1111100 1101101 1111101 00101011 11110010 11110011 1100101 1101100 1111001 111100110 1110001 11011100 1101010 1111111 110011111 1111110 11001100 110101110 1110111 101111 1111100 1101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; kj, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word den is repeated.

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  • summary of Læg Vedbendranken Om Min Hat;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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