Jeg Gav Den Unge Gud Mit Hjerte by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Gav Den Unge Gud Mit Hjerte that begins with:

Jeg gav den unge Gud mit Hjerte,
jeg gav ham alle mine Sange....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXbb X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111111 111111 1110011111 11011110 1110111 111101100 1111011111 1100111101 1111111 111111111 11111111 100111111 11011111 11111111 111111100 111101110 11011010 11111111 111111111 111010111 111011110 11101110 11111100 10011101000 11111100 11111111 11001111 1101111011 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; jeg, og, en are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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