This is an analysis of the poem Ret Aldrig Kan Jeg Glemme that begins with:

Ret aldrig kan jeg glemme
Den allerførste Gang,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX dXXXXXXX eXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXfXXbX XXXXXXXX XXXXXdcX XcXceXXX XXXXXaXa XXXfXXXX XgXgXcXc XaXaXXXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1101 111101 11111 1111111 111111 11111 11111 1111110 100101 1111010 111101 11101 11011 11111 110111 111101 111101 10011 111101 11111111 11111 11111 110100 111110 110111 111000 111111 101110 11011 1101110 110101 1111111 1101110 10111 1111 110110 1011001 1100110 111101 1101010 111101 110110 11011 110111 11011 1111111 110111 011110 110011 111110 11111 11011 111101 111101 11101 110011 1101110 11111 11011 11011 11011 111111 11110 110111 110100 11111101 11010 1101100 111101 111111 11111101 110011 111101 11111 11111 11111 1111110 1111 11111 110111 11111 1111 11011 110111 11101 11001 111111 11111 110110 11101 11011 111111 111110 110001 1110100 11111 11101 11111 11111 111110 11111 111111 11001 110111 111101 11111 111111 111111 1111 11111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, mig, saa, var, om are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mig, den, og, det, som are repeated.

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

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