This is an analysis of O! Havde Vi Os En Fager Lille Ø by Emil Aarestrup.

O havde vi os en fager lille Ø
Langt fra Land, ubesøgt, i den blaa Sommersø…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXXXXaX cXXcXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,10,
  • Metre: 11111101 1111011110 1110101011 11111111111 11110 10111 111011 11101 11101111101 1111110111 1111011101 1011110101 110111111 11111111011 111001 11111 111111 111001 111111111 11101111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

vi

Anaphora

hvor