This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Sad Med Lykkens Guld I Fang that begins with:
Jeg sad med Lykkens Guld i Fang,
da hørte jeg saa trist en Sang....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aa XX XXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 1111111 11011110 11110111 11110111 111111101 1111011 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 65
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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 is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg 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 d is repeated).
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