This is an analysis of the poem Den Unge Herr Petersen that begins with:
Og det var den unge Herr Petersen,
Han bygger sig saa kosteligt et Skib....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXX XXXX AXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111100 1101110011 1111011001 11011100 11111100 10111111 11110011011 1111101 111111100 1101110011 1111011001 1100100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; det, var, 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.
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