This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Skrev En Dag En Petition that begins with:
Jeg skrev en Dag en Petition,
en Bøn om gunstig Protektion:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX aaXXX XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111010 11110100 1111111 1111101 101111 1111110 1101000 1111101 11111101 101111 11111 1111101 11111111 11011100 101111 11110111 1111111 11011000 1110100 101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, en, det 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.
The poet repeated the same word paa at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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