This is an analysis of the poem Da Jeg Var Lille that begins with:
Der var en Tid, da jeg var meget lille,
Min hele Krop var kun en Alen lang;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XXXX XXXX cXcd acaX daXa XeXe dXXX XfXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 1111111101 111111101 11111101 110111101 1111111101 111111101 111110111 11111110 1101111101 11101011 111101101 11101111 111101111 11111111 111110111 1011111110 111101111 110111011 1111010101 11100111 111110110 1111111 111101000 11100111 110101111 11111011 111111101 11111111 11111101110 11111111 1111011110 111111010 010101011 1100111111 1110001110 111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; jeg, var, og, hvor, for, min, de, svandt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word da at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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