This is an analysis of the poem Du Retter Tidt Dit Øjepar that begins with:

Du retter tidt dit Øjepar
Saa spørgende mod mit:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXX bXXXXXXX XXaaXXXX bXaaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101110 111111 1111101 10011101 1111011111 110111 111010 110101010101 10110101 111101 1110100 11011000 111111111111 11011100 11110 110101010101 10110100 110111 111101 11110101 1100110111110 11011011 110111 110101010101 11011101 110111 110111 1101011 01110001111 1110101 110101 110101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; man, en, jeg, de are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sig is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word blaa at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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