This is an analysis of the poem I En Lille Piges Album that begins with:

Dig selv, mit Barn, jeg kjender ei -
Jeg kjender kun din unge Alder,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XbXb XXXX XcXc XXXX Xdcd aXXX eXeX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111101 11011110 11011100 11101010 1101001 11110111 11010111 11010111 1101111 110101000 1101111 1111110 1111111 01011101 11111111 110111 11011100 1101101 1101101 110110 11001110 1101011 111111 111111 1110110 101011110 11010101 10011110 10010101 01111110 11110111 01101100 111111 11110101 111111 10011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, du are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    The author used the same word men at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of I En Lille Piges Album;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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