This is an analysis of the poem Den Lille Evadatter that begins with:

Overgiven er Du, ellevild
som et Barn, og dog, Du lille Slange,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX bXbX XXXX XXXX XbcX XXXX XdXd aXXX XXXX XXXX XeXe cXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100000100 11111011 101111 11010111 11010110 10111111 1111110 1111111 11110110 1111011000 110011111 111111010 1000111011 11101111 10101111 100110101 111100100 1011010 10001001 111110101 101010101 110101000 111001101 101110100 11011011 111001100 100011011 1010101100 11011110 11111000 10011010 111011110 10111110 111010010 11111110 11101100 101110111 110111 1111111111 11111101 10011111 1110011 010011101 111000101 10111111 1111100 111011 11111111 111110001 10111001 11101111 1101111 10101111 101011111 11111110 10111111 11111001 11101111 11110101 11110111 100111101 10111111 111111 11111100 11111100 11101111 11111101 10100100 101111101 11011111 1111011111 11011101 11111111 101010101 1011111 111011101 11110011 101111000 10110101 11111010 11111100 11111101 101111101 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; du, jeg, min are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.

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  • summary of Den Lille Evadatter;
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