This is an analysis of the poem Altanen that begins with:
Min højest Elskede, mine unge Minders Moder,
du alle mine Glæder, du mit Hjærtes bedste Pligt!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXa XXXXX XXXXX XaXXX XXXbX BXXXB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111010 01110111111 1011111010 110111110111 1110111010 1101100111011 11011001110001 111111111111 111100111111110 1101100111011 1111011100 110101101111 111110111010 1111111111 1111011100 1101101111111 11011111110 1101111110 11101111001 1101101111111 11111101101 110111011111 111111111 1111101111 11111101101 01001011111 101101111110 11110110100 1001010110010 01001011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, af, t, jeg, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vore, paa, jeg are repeated.
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- summary of Altanen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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