This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Tror Det Ikke Fornødent that begins with:

Jeg tror det ikke fornødent,
at Molboer uden Lige...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XXX XXX XXX aaa XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX bcX bXX cXc XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 110101 1011111 1111010 1101011 110010 11111110 1101110 11110100 11011101 111111 1101111 010110110 1111110 011110 011110110 1111001 110111110 1101101 11011010 110010110 1011010 110111110 11001110 010110110 11010100 1000000 11010000 110110010 110001100 0111011 10011110 111000 110011 110101 11101 10111110 1101101 111100 11101010 11011111 11110011 1111101 1111101 1111111 11101001 100111010 111110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 90
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines be is repeated).

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