This is an analysis of the poem At Være - Adam Homo that begins with:

O Moder - sukker Adam - Moder kjære!
(Ved hvilke Ord med Øine store, blaae,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XaaXXaXX XbbXXXXc XXXXXXXX XXXdXXXX XXXXXXXX XcaXacXX XXXeeXXX dXXXdXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010101 1111111 111101111 1101111011 110111011 11110111011 111111111 111011111 111011010 11111001 1011111101 1111101010 1111110110 111011111 11111111 111001101 11111111 11011101 111110111 1111111 111010110 1101110111 1100111110 11111111 100101011 1111111111 1101110110 1111101101 1101000101 110111101 11111011110 110111110 1101100110 111011101 1111111010 11011101110 11110111010 11101011 11110101 11011011 1101111110 111110111 1101111010 1101010011 111111110 110101111 1101101111 110110111 1111011 110101011 11010111 110111011 11011111 111000111 1111111 111111111 110111011 10011111 110101111 110101001 1011100111 11111011 1011100111 1010111011 1111110111 1010111000 11110111 1111111110 1111111110 110111111 111111111 111111011 1111011111 111111110 11111110 1100000111 1011011101 1100111101 110011111 1111011011 111110101 1110111001 111110111 100111011 1101111 111111010 1110111000 1111111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; moder, jeg, den, de, at, og, af, re are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, han are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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, nken, iet, m are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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