This is an analysis of the poem Til Min M** Paa Hans Broders Fødselsdag that begins with:
Troe mig, Damon: Vor Siel har sit bestemte Maal,
Som vort Legem af Støv — Mennesket aabner vel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXb cXXXaXXXXXX dXXXXXeX XXXXeXd XXXeXXbfXXXXf XXXXbXXXXX XXXXXX XcXXggXXXhXXXXeXXXXXXhaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,11,8,7,13,10,6,25,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111101 111011100101 10101111111 111011101 111111101101 101111111 10100111111 10110111110 11111111 11011101100 111011111 11001110110 111011101 11101101100 11111111101 10111110100 11111011111 10101111100 111011111111 1111111101 1100110010 1001111011 11111101001 101001101101 11101111000 11101101001 11011110111 110011110101 11101111001 1110111101 111011111 111111111001 111011111 11100111101 10111011101 111110111 1111110111 11111101111 11001100101 1010011111 10101001011010 111111101111 111111111100 1110011111 1110101111010 110011111000 11111101110 111001110 111111011 1111101101 110111011 1011111110 1111111001 11101011101 11001111101 11111111001 111111111 11101111110 11100110111 11100111101 111110100 1111111110 11101101111 111101101100 1011111111 11100111110 1111111101 1100110101 11100110101 1111111001 110011010 10101111101 110011101101 1011101101 1110110111 1011111110 11111111001 111111101 110101110 1011111110 111011100101 1110110111 1110110111 11011010 1111101111 111011101 11001101111 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
- Average number of words per stanza: 97
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, vor, den, de, af, og, med are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, ofte are repeated.
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