This is an analysis of the poem Nissen that begins with:
Kokkepigen:
Du lille Nisse med Huen rød,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XX X XXXX aaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,1,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1000 011111 01101110 1000 10101111 1111100 11111111 11111111 11111101 110110101 1110111 11111101 11010111 11101101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word du is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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