This is an analysis of the poem Min Hjemmen that begins with:
Jeg er født paa Jyllands Sletter,
der hvor Lam af Lyngen nipper,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 11111010 1110110 101110 1110100 10111 1010101 1111101 1011100 111100 101111 1111100 111111 111110 1111111 1111110 1111110 1010111 100110 1011100 1111100 111000 11111 11100110 11101110 11111 111011 111111 11111110 1111110 10111 101110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; med is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
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