This is an analysis of the poem Til Erato that begins with:
Hvad vil du mig? Hvor kan du tro det sømmer
Sig nu at flaae saa bløde, kjælne Strænge?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110111 11111111 11111101 11111111 1100111001 10111011 1101101111 110111111 11011101010 11001101100 1001011110 111111110 1110111111 11010111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
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; du is repeated.
The author used the same word hvad 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 mmer, nge are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word mmer at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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