This is an analysis of the poem Den Gode Rus that begins with:
Min egen Yndling, min Jan
har været beruset, beruset....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXXX AXaXXX XXXXXX aaXaXX AXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101011 11100100 1101011 11110110 1111111 11100100 1101011 101111 11011011 11011011 11110110 111111100 1111111 11011011 1111111 1111111 111111110 111100100 111111 11111110 111011 1111110 1101111 11011000 1101011 11110110 11101111 111110010 111110 111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 30
- 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; han, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
The author used the same word min at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word beruset at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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