This is an analysis of the poem Barndoms Lyst Og Barndoms Smerte that begins with:
Barndoms Lyst og Barndoms Smerte
som en Taage svinder hen;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXXX XaXXXXa XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 111101 101101 111001 11101 111111 100101 1110111 11101 1011000 101111 111100 111111 111111 110101 1111100 101101 111101 1110111 111111 111101 1111010 100011 11101100 1011111 110110 110101 1010101 0111101 011101 011101 11111 1011111 1011110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 35
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; der, vor, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word du is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines der, ie are repeated).
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