This is an analysis of the poem Mejerist Esper Andersen, Jebjerg that begins with:

De gamle Dage er ikke glemt,
jeg mindes det klart i Dag, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011 1101111 1111101 110111 0111111 1111001 1101111 11111 0111101 1111010 11010111 11101 0111101 111100 1100010101 010110 0111101 111111 11110011 0111 0111101 110111 11111110 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; r, med are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, de are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Mejerist Esper Andersen, Jebjerg;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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