This is an analysis of the poem De Valfartende Smaapigers Leg Mens Mødrene Var Til Messe that begins with:

Infantinden har besluttet
tire, ture, lire, lei!...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10001100 101101 11100110 111011 1111010 111101 11111000 11111 10001010 101011 1001110 1010011 1010100 110111 111111 111111 01101110 101011 11101110 1011101 1110101 111011 11111110 1110111 1011011 111111 11101110 101111 1011100 110111 111111 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; vi, er, jeg are repeated.

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

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  • summary of De Valfartende Smaapigers Leg Mens Mødrene Var Til Messe;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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