This is an analysis of the poem Til Strengelegen that begins with:
Du har tonet, min Leg,
Til min jublende Sang,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXbbX AcXXXX AcXXcc abXbbX aXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011011 11101 11111101 1111 111011 11101001 011011 1111101 111001011 111001 1111 11111011 011011 11111 110111110 1111 11111 111011001 11111 10111 111110011 11111 111101 11111111 10111 111001 11111111 110001 111001 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, om are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, og are repeated.
The author used the same word du at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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