This is an analysis of the poem Balder Til Sin Fader that begins with:
Du, som mig endnu din Dør oplader,
Naar forfulgt af Nid og Spot og Svig,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXX baXb XaXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110110100 110111111 11101111 1110101010 11001001 0111111110 11101101 1111111100 101011110 011010000 111010101 1101101100 1010111 111101100 101111111 11101110 101111110 11111010100 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; og is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word naar is repeated.
The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word n at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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