This is an analysis of the poem Haanden Og Hjærtet that begins with:

Du skriver, hvorledes din unge Svoger
bag Forhæng og Døre du kysser tit,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXA XbXXA XXXXa XbXXA X XXXaA
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,1,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101001110 11110101 11110110 0101101111 110101111101 11010100 11111100111 111101111 111111111100 110101111101 10111011 110100100 110110111 01111101001 1101011111101 11111111010 111110101111 11101101110 1101111001 110101111101 100 11110110 1110100 111111 1110101 110101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, er are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word sit at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Haanden Og Hjærtet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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