This is an analysis of the poem Taksigelse that begins with:
Jeg takker dig for hver en Stund,
Naar Du med Øie og med Mund...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXX bbXXX XXXXX XaXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 1011111 1001111 11110111 11111 11011111 01111111 1111110 1111111 1101000 11011111 110111 1111000 1101110 111110 11011111 0101111 11110 11110101 1111110 11011111 11110111 101100 01111101 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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, mig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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