This is an analysis of the poem Til Fru Majorinde V. Lützau that begins with:
Der var en Tid, da jeg var meget lille!"
Det hørte jeg af Engle mangen Gang;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXb Xaca XXXX cXcd eceX deXe XXXX dbdX XXXf XfXX XXXX XcXX XXdf XXXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111110100 111110101 11111101 1100010111 1111110101 11111110 111111101 1101010111 111111010 1111111 110101111 1111110011 1111010101 1101011011 1111111101 111101111 1111011101 111101111 111110111 1011111110 111101111 110111011 1111011111 10000111 111110110 111110111 110111100 1101111111 110101111 11110111 11111101 111101111 11110101010 11011011 1111110110 110101011 011001101 1100111110 110001110 111101011 111001101 1101011111 1101110001 111111110 1011111110 1101011101 110101111 11011011 111011010 11111101 1101110111 110111100 1011110110 11011101 11010101010 1111100001 111110110 11101001 0101111111 111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; og, hvor, hendes, jeg, min are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mig, nu, den are repeated.
The author used the same word nu at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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