This is an analysis of the poem Nytaarsdigt Til En Moder that begins with:

O du mit Intets troe Veninde
Hvad var jeg, da dit varme Bryst...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXa XXXXbXXX XcXXXXXX XaXaXXXX dXeXeXXX XfXfegXd gXXXbXXX XXXXXcXX XXXXXgXX XeXXagXa XXXXXXXX XXXgXXgX XXXXXXXX XXXcXXXX XeXXXgXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110110 1111111 1001111 111011 1111111 1011111 1111111 111101 110111 1111110 11111 1111110 11110111 11010111 1111110 100010 101111100 1101101 11001000 11111111 11011110 1100111 1110111 11011110 110111 111111 111111 111111 1111110111 1101001 0110111 1101111 11010110 011111 111011 1110010 1111101 1111011 1001111 111111 111011 1101111 11010111 1111111 1111111 11101110 11101000 11110100 111001110 1100100 1111000 1101100 1110101 0111101 1111111 011000 111011 111011 1111101 11110111 1011110 0111101 1001010 11100 11111010 11110110 111110110 1111100 11110111 110111010 1111110 01010101 1011111 1111101 11011011 111011 1011101 11110110 1111100 1111101 1011111 1111110 11111 1111000 1101111 111101 1001110 1101111 111111100 011000 101110100 1101010 1111100 11011100 110110010 110111 0110011 11011111 100111111 11110011111 1111101 1111010 11011111 1101110 1110011 111111111 1110111 111111 111101 1110110 111011 1111101 1111111 11110111 1101110 11010101 1101111 11011110 11101010 11100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 263
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • 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; mig, og, hvi, du, den, da, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvi, den, da, han, med are repeated.

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

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