This is an analysis of the poem Hendes Enogtyvende Fødselsdag that begins with:
Sov nu og drøm din Morgen i Ro,
mens Solskinnet kvidrer let....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXaX bcbcXbaX XXbXXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011 1100101 1111011011 1100110 1111111 11111 11111101 11001001 10110011 11101 101111101 10101011 111100111 101011 11111111 11111101 11101111 111001110 1101100101 101001 1010111100 1101110 111011001011 10110111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; paa, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word aar at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen
- Analysis of Hendes Kjoler
- Analysis of Her Kom Min Trefod Og Jeg
- Analysis of Her Kommer En Paaklædnings-Scene
