This is an analysis of Er Du En Christen? — Spurgte Du Mig Nylig by Emil Aarestrup.

Er Du en Christen? — spurgte du mig nylig -
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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX aXXXX aXXXX XXbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Metre: 0011010110 100110010 1111111110 11111100 1 1101110110 11111110 1101001100 11100010 1 111111011 11110111 1101001111 11100001 1 1101111 1111011 11101011 11000011 1 1111000110 11111111 11101111101 11011101 1 110111111 1011101 111010110 110110111 1 1011111100 11010101 1110110110 1111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 34

Repeated words/phrases

som

Anaphora

jeg, maa