This is an analysis of the poem Promenaden Om Natten that begins with:

Søren, saa kom da nu, Søren, min Ven!
Søren, nei det var da Fanden til Drikken....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXXXXX bXbcXXXXXX dXdXXXXXXX XeXXbbXXXX XXXXXXXdcd fffXggXXXc cXcaXXXXXX XXXXXeXXXa XXfaXXXXXX XXXaXXehXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111111 1111110110 11111101 11111110 111110101 111110111 11111110 1110010 101111 110111 10111000 100011111 11100111 1111011 1001010001 1101011111 1011001 111011 110111 1011001 111111001 011111111 111010111 100110 11011101 101001010 101111 1011001 1101 111101 111111011 110111110 110110101 10101 111011011 10111111 1111001 100101 11110100 1111011 1001110111 111110010 11100101 1011010 111100111 1001101011 1111010 1111001 11100110 111111 0111001010 1011001011 1011011001 1011001 101111011 1111011001 1011110 1011001 11110110 100111 110111011 111010110 101011011 1111010 11110110110 111010111 111110 1011001 10011010 1011110 110111011 1011101 101111111 111110 111001111 110111110 1011111 101111 100101 11100 11111101 10111110100 1001011111 0101110 111100101 110111011 110111 1101111 10101 1111011 11101111 11110111110 1110011011 101110 11111011 1011111 1110110 111011 111100 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 66
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, ren, d, paa, v, du, i, vor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words s, l, vender, v are repeated.

    The author used the same words kom, s 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).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase femten connects the lines.

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  • summary of Promenaden Om Natten;
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