This is an analysis of the poem En Historie that begins with:
Søde Barn, jeg var kun fireogtyve,
du var seksogtyve, gør det noget,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXa XXXXXXX XXXXX XaXX XXXXX XXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,7,5,4,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 011001110 11111111 000111110 1110111110 1111001 1111111 011011110 1101111 11100111 101111110 101001010 11001110 111111110 1110111110 100100000 0111101 00111111 1111110 11101011 111011101 1011100 100111101 10111011 110100011 11001111 0011111010 111010111 1110110 111001100 111001100 011001110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med, de, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word er is repeated.
The author used the same word s at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of En Historie;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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