This is an analysis of the poem Engle-Velkomst Til Det Lille Barn Ove Malling Bang that begins with:

Velkommen her til os tilbage
Med hele din Uskyldighed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10001110 1111000 0110111 11111101 1101111 111011 1111111 11110111 110111000 111101 111111010 111010 1111111 111101 11111010 110111100 1111100 110111 110111 11000100 01011010 11110100 110011 1001101 111011 11001101 111101111 11111 111101100 1111110 110111 1111111 101111 11011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 135
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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; hun is repeated.

    The author used the same words nu, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Engle-Velkomst Til Det Lille Barn Ove Malling Bang;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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