Jomfru Elses Vise by Jens Baggesen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jomfru Elses Vise that begins with:

Hvorfor rinder saa din Taare?
Møe, saa væn, og ung endnu!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XbXX XXXX cXcX dXdX XXXX XeXe XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX bXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010111 1111110 1010011 1011100 1111101 1111101 111111 111111 111111 1110101 1111111 111110100 11111 101111 111100 111011 111111 111100 1111101 101111 11111010 111011 11100010 11111 1111101 1111101 111101 101111 11111 111101 111111 111011 11111 111101 110111 1111111 111111 11111 1111110 1111101 111111 111111 111111111 1110111 1111111 111111101 111111 11111111 1110 111101 111011 1011001 11101110 111011 10001100 111111 1111101 11111 1011101 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; hvorfor, saa, lad, mig, mte, jeg, og, med, ned, det, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvorfor, jeg, lad, og, ak, derfor are repeated.

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

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