This is an analysis of the poem Et Digt Om Et Barn that begins with:

En lille Unge, den er ganske lille,
ti Maaneder gammel. Som en Spaniens Dame...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXaXXa XXXcXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,27,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 11001011101 111110100 1111000100 1000010111 1001011000 11110011 11110111110 100011101 1100100110 11011101110 1011110110 1101111111010 1111011110 1100111 110110011 1101111111 01011101010 1101111100 1111110110 11011001010 11111111 1101110 100100010011 111111111 10111101110 011101101110 11111011 1101011110 11010111100 11111111 1101111110 111101 1101001 110111101 1110011111 11011111 1101110111 11111111 110111111 110011111 11011101 111111111 1111011100 1101110110 110010011 111101111 11110011 11000100110 111001101 1111001010 11011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 991
  • Average number of words per stanza: 194
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; dig, og, af, som, hun, re, for, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, hun are repeated.

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  • summary of Et Digt Om Et Barn;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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