This is an analysis of the poem Til En Madonna that begins with:
Jeg vil bygge dig et Alter i et underjordisk Kammer,
Madonna, Elskerinde, paa Bunden af min Jammer,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXccXXXXXXXcXXXbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111011100010 0101001101110 1111111111101 11111110110 11111110011 10101101100 11111101110 101000111110 1101110110111 11010100101 11111011111 111111101 11110011111 11011011101 1111110011 110110111111 1100110111111 1111111110 110111111100 11100011111 1111011111 110101110001 111111110111 11011111101 111110110111 11001010111 1010011100 111111011011 101101011001 1111110111010 10101001010001 1101011011 11110111100 1111011101 1110111101 111101111100 101101101011 1110010111011 1001111001 1111101111 11111110011 110111011111 1101111111110 1111110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2142
- Average number of words per stanza: 431
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, i, de, l, min, en, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, lver, de, be, l are repeated).
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