This is an analysis of the poem Cabinettet that begins with:

Aladdin.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXaXXbXXXXXXXXXbXX cX aXdXeXXXX Xeb aXX XXXX af XXX aXX XXXX af XXXX Xba XXb XXX XXX XcX XXX XXX XaX aXX XXX gXg XaX dXX bXX dhXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,2,9,3,3,4,2,3,3,4,2,4,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 11010000 111111110100 1101111101 11011010011 0011000011 11001111 11111111 11111101111 1000111010 1110 1111 1110 11111111 111111110 1101110110 0111001 1111011111 1111111 11111100 1111101100 1101101100 11111101110 111100110 1001110111011110101 1011 11011110 010 1 111111101 1111001010 11111111 011111101 1001111 111111010 111010010 101 111110111 11101101110 010 1011101100 110 101 1110110 11011111111 0111111101 010 110111011 101 1000111100 101101110 010 1 1001011101 101 1110011010 110111101 1101101101 010 111111101 101 11110101110 111001011 1101011100 110111110 11010110110 1011011101 111111010 11111111 111010010 11110111 1011110101 110011101 111111101 11111111 100011011 1100011101 11111011 1111010101 11011101110 111110101 111110010 111110101 111111101 1001110111 11111011 111011101 10111101101 111001101 111111111 1101110111 111011101 111111101 11101111 110110111 111001111 11111001 11111111 1011010111 1111010001 101100101 10011110 100011011 111011110 110110100 11010101100 11011111 11110011 10111010 110101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, den, ey, er, du are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words een, hvo, som are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dning is repeated).

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  • summary of Cabinettet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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