This is an analysis of Bøn by Holger Drachmann.

Lær mig at blive en Mand,
Haardt prøvede Hav!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXXXX bXXbXXXXX XXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,
  • Metre: 111111 111 11010111 10111 1111011 1101111 1111110 101111 111111 11111010 111101010 1111001010 11011011011 11111110 110101101 111111111 11010011010 10111110110 111111 1001 111011 10111 1111011 1111011 100101 110101 111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 27

Repeated words/phrases

jeg, og

Anaphora

l