This is an analysis of the poem Hjertetyven that begins with:
Bekjendt er Amor jo; det slemme Skarn!
Man ham afmaler som et deiligt Barn...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXXcXXXddXXXXXXbXXXeebbXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXffXXXXXXXXXXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 78,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101111 1110011101 111111110 1111111010 111111011 111001111 111111111 111111111 11110011 1110110100 111110111 0111010011 1100111111 11011101 11111111111 1110111111 1101110111 11001110 111111111 11111110 1111011110 11000111100 110111111 11111011 11111111 110100111 1111100110 11110011110 1100001110 1101000111 1111010110 11111111110 101110011 11111111 1111001110 1101111110 111111111 1111011110 110111101 11110111101 1111111 111111111 1101111111 11111011 1111111111 111111110 11001111 0111001011 111011110 1111111101110 110110011 111101111 1101110111 1111111 111111110 1111111101 1111011100 1100011110 111111101 11110111 11111101 1111011110 111111111 110111111 111011111 1110110110 1111111 11111110 1111111110 111110111 110111111 11111111 11011011110 1111100110 10011111111 111111110 110111111 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3117
- Average number of words per stanza: 646
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; han, jeg, en, paa, den, mig, og, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ie, rn, d, gt, re are repeated).
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