This is an analysis of the poem Der Var En Prins that begins with:
Der var en Prins, og det var mig;
han fødtes under Lykkens Tegn,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1110101 1111111 1111101 1111111 11010100 11111111 10010111 11111101 1111101 1001110 01011 1111101 11111101 10011111 11011101 11111101 1111011 111111 1111100 111111 11110111 11011111 11000101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; han, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, en are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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