This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Hørte — Jeg Laa Selv Og Blødte Ved Siden that begins with:
Jeg hørte — jeg laa selv og blødte ved Siden
Af Vejen — de kommende Trin af et Tog....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX XXXX XaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111110 1100101111 11001110110 101110101 1101011010 11111001101 1101011010 11001010011 11011101111 1101111111 11011011111 1111011111 110110110110 1110111101 1101011110 1111101010 11111101010 1111001101 1101010110 11101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; det, jeg, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vi is repeated.
The author used the same word vi at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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