This is an analysis of the poem Palmines Smiil [elsk Dyden! Lød En Ukiendt Røst] that begins with:
Elsk Dyden! lød en ukiendt Røst
Alt tidlig i mit spæde Bryst;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXX XXXbXX XXXbbX XXXXXX XcXXXX XXXXXX XcXXXX aXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110111111 1101011110 11001111 1011100 110011100 11111101 11110111 111111010 1101111 11001101 11011110 11111101 111011 1100111 1111101 110111 111111 1111011 1011000 11111 111001 1111010111 1101111 11110100 1100011 11111101 1110111 1100011 111111 11110110 11111101 111111 11111111 11111101 1110011 11111001 10010111 11110011 1111101 1110001 1111011 1111011 0111100 011101 1110011 11011101 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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; dyden, d, jeg, den, fandt, i, og, skal are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, du are repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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