This is an analysis of the poem Foraarstegn that begins with:

Mor, har du set, hvad der staar bag Diget?
Gæslingblomster saa bitte smaa! ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXabXb aXXXXXXX aXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111110 100111 10111010 111111 111011010 1011101 110111 101101111 110111010 1001100 10100110 111110 10101101 110111 11101111 110111 11011110 1001101 1011110 10111111 1001111 1000111 10111110 10001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 264
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; det is repeated.

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

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  • summary of Foraarstegn;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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