This is an analysis of the poem Gjøgen that begins with:
Min Søn! om Du vil i Verden frem,
Saa kuk!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XAXaXXbXX XAXAXXbXX XaXXXXbXX XAXXXXXXX XAXabXXXX XaXXXXXXX cacAXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 11 11001011101 11 111111110 11101101 111110 111110 10 111011101 11 11011110 11 11110110 11111011 110110 111110 10 111011011 11 111011111 10 11110111 11111101 100110 110110 10 110110101 11 10101101 10 1111111 11111101 1101 111110 10 111101111 11 111100111 11 0101111110 110111010 110111 110110 10 100100111 11 011001101 10 010110101 111101101 11111 11011 10 110101101 11 10001111 11 1111111010 1101011010 11111 111110 10
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
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; den, du, de, og, kuk are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words syng, dit are repeated.
The author used the same word v at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, re are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word kukkuk at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Gjøgen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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