This is an analysis of the poem Kongen that begins with:
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Et fattigt Barn jeg var, mig Ingen kjendte,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111101 11111110101 11110111010 1111111110 11011011 111111101 11111111110 11000111110 111101111 11111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- 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; jeg is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
The author used the same word 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 is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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