This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Aldrig Det For Vellyst Kjender that begins with:

Jeg aldrig det for Vellyst kjender,
at drikke bort en gavnlig Dag;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX XaXa XbXX XXXb XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 1111101 11111110 11010111 11011101 111101 1111011 11111101 1111111 1110111 11110101 1111111 11011111 0110101 1111111 11010101 111001 1011110 1111011 11110111 1111101 1111101 110111101 1111101 1111111 111111 1010011 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; fem is repeated.

    The author used the same words den, det at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fem connects the lines.

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  • idea of the verse;
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