This is an analysis of the poem Mor Ved Brønden that begins with:

Min Mor var bleven gammel,
dog endnu mere svag; ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXca XdeX dXXc XXXX XbXX XfXX XXXX XXXe XXXf XdXd XXXX XgfX XXXX XhXe XXXi XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXg XXXX XXXX jXXd hdXd XXXX XXXX XfXX XXdh hXXX XXXb cXcX XkXk XdXd XXXX XXXX XXXX XXfX XXff XXXX XXXb XXiX XXXj XXXb XXXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 11011 11110 110111 10110 11011 10010 11111 11011 11011 11111 11100 1111110 11101 111110 1110 11111 11101 1111010 11111 011010 11101 110010 11111 111100 1111 11011 11011 111111 111111 110111 1001 111110 111100 111110 110111 11011 111101 11011 1011111 111110 11011 110110 111111 110100 11011 1101110 111 10010 110101 1101 111010 11110 11111 0111110 11111 110111 1111 111111 1101111 111101 111100 111110 110111 110111 1111 111111 11101 010110 111100 1100010 11001 1111110 111100 1111000 1111 010111 11111 010101 111011 1101010 11101 110101 110111 11111 11111 1111 11110 11101 10100 11111 10011 1110011 110011 1000010 11011 101101 110101 110111 110111 1111110 111101 11110 110111 1101101 1101101 111011 1111000 1011110 111010 11100110 11101 1111111 11011111 11011011 1111001 11011110 1011101 1111110 1001011 110110010 110111 110111110 1111111 1111111 111111 111001 1111111 1111101 1101111 1111111 11101 1101101 1111001 11111111 11111 111110 1111001 1101111 1111 100111 1111001 110111 1100001 1101100 11110 111111 111100 110111 110100 111111 11111 11111 11111 110110 111011 01110 1110 11100 11111 110110 110011 110101 1101 110010 110111 1100010 110101 1111010 11011 1101010 111111 1111010 1111111 11110110 11111001 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 45
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 178
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, i, de, et, det, saa, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, som, med, og, af are repeated.

    The author used the same words det, og, al, men at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ren is repeated).

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