This is an analysis of the poem Stille, Stille, Zions Døttre Smaa that begins with:
Stille, stille, Zions Døttre smaa!
Græder ei saa stride, bittre Taarer!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXa XabaXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XcXXca XXXXXX XbdbXX XXXXXX XXXXdX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011 1111110 1011111 101110110 10111111 1011111 101111110 10101011 1011111010 10111011 10111111 10101010 10101011 11010110 11101111 1111111100 1111111 1111011 1010111 111111110 111111101 011010110 1111111100 011110110 111111 111111110 1101111 110101100 101011100 11110101 110010011 01111101 11011110 11111110 1011101011 101110111 111011101 110111110 111111101 10011010 1111111 11101001 11101001 1110111 111011101 10111111 1011111 110010111 10101011 101100110 11111101 101111010 11110101 101001110 11111101 11011111 11111101 11110111 10101110 111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 63
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ei, d, i, skal are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines se, de are repeated).
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