This is an analysis of the poem Modtag En Kreds Af Smaa Veninder! that begins with:

Modtag en Kreds af smaa Veninder!
De har vel ei saa friske Kinder,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaX XXBXb ccXXc XXXXX XcXXX XXXXX XXBXb XXXdX XdbXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111100 01111110 111101001 110111010 11110111 01110011 1011111 111111 1101011 11111101 01111001 1111 01011111 11110100 10011 11111 111111 0111101 11110001 1111101 11011110 1111101 1111011 111111010 11101101 111111 11010100 1101111 111011 1110010 111001 111111 111111 0101111 11011101 1111111 1011011 0101111 1001011 11010110 1101111 110111 1111111 1111111 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, og are repeated.

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

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

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