This is an analysis of the poem Krukken Synger that begins with:

Da jeg var ung og fuld af Veer,
en Krukke uden Dato sat...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXaXX CXX XXXX XXXX CXX XXXXXXbX CXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,3,4,4,3,8,3,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 1110101 1110011 1111111 11011101 1111111 1111111 11111 1111111 11111 11111 1111101 1111111 011111 111111 11111111 11110111 111110111 10111 1111111 11111 11111 110101 1111110111 1110100 111100 11000011 11110111 11110111 111101 1111111 11111 11111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; jeg, mig are repeated.

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

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

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