This is an analysis of the poem En Rekonvalescent that begins with:

Jeg tvende Somre laa paa Puden
Og legte med min Klokkestreng,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 1111100 1111110 11000111 11010110 1111111 11010110 11010101 11111110 111010 11111100 111111111 110110010 11110111 110111010 11111101 11101110 110111 111010 11101100 110101010 1111111 11111010 1111111 111101010 111011 11010110 1101011 10010011 11010101 111111 01111101 111111 11000111 1101111 11100111 110101010 10111011 11111110 1101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; den is repeated.

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

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  • history of its creation;
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