This is an analysis of the poem Min Moster Og Jeg that begins with:

Min Mosters Gaard den laae paa Skrinten
Ved Bredden af en skovkrandst Bugt,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXbXXX aXaXXXXX XcXXXXXX XXXXdXdX eXeXfXXX XXgXXXXX XdXXXeXX XXXXXcXc eXeXXXXX XbgbXXXX fXfXXXXX XXXXfXXX XXXXXaXa XcXcaXaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111110 11011101 110111110 1101111 0111011 11011100 110101 1111111 1001111 1100111 1111111 11011101 11011101 111111 11111111 11111111 1001111 111101 11010101 11011101 1110101 1111011 11011111 11110001 1101001 11011111 1101111 1111010 110111010 1101111 11011100 11110111 11111101 1111101 1111111 11100111 11011111 111101 110110111 11011011 11011010 11110101 11111110 11110001 1101110 11111110 11100100 0111101 11101111 1111011 11101111 1100111 1111101 1101111 11110001 11110110 11001111 11001111 11111010 111111 1011110 11111111 11110110 111111010 101111010 1101111 111111100 1101110 1101110 1101011 111101110 1111101 11101101 10111011 1110011 11010111 1011100 10111100 1101111 1111100 11010111 11010111 111111 11111101 1111110 11110100 1101110 111111010 11111111110 11001101 111001010 1111111 11001110 11111101 110101010 1111101 1101101 1010010 1110111 1100111 1111110 11011101 110111010 11111100 11101110 110111 111101000 1101001 11110101 111101 1101111 11110111 10110101 11111110 1111101 10110011 11100111 11011101 11110101 0110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • 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; hun, d, den, jeg, tusind, de are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word baronen at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Min Moster Og Jeg;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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