This is an analysis of the poem Ellen [i] that begins with:
End har jeg kun dig skuet, fagre Kvinde!
End har ej Læben ladet mig forstaa...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 111110110 1101110101 110111111 11111111 100101110 1111111 100111111 111111 11011111 1101011111 110111011 111010100 1111111111 111101111 1101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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; den, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word end is 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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