This is an analysis of the poem Niebuhr that begins with:
Europas Himmel graaner Aar for Aar,
Og Aandens Lys hendøer i skumle Sky;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaabcXXc dXXXXXXX XeeXXXXX XXfXXdXX XXfXXXXX XXXXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001010111 110110111 1100011101 1111011 10101111 11011111 1010110001 110101111 111010111 110111110 11101111 11111100 111001100 1111011001 111100101 111111100 1111111101 1101010000 11101111 1111100 1101110001 111001100 1111100110 11110111 1111111101 11010111 110101111 110111010 111111111 1101011101 111011100 111000100 111111110 111111111 1110010001 110010111 1101110111 1100010101 1100110110 11001111 11010001001 101110101 100011110 1111001 111111100 111011101 1101010000 110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; paa, det, han, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, og, det are repeated.
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- summary of Niebuhr;
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