This is an analysis of the poem Et Mørkt Fangetaarn that begins with:
O store Gud! Er det en Drøm? — En Drøm!
O ja! det er en Drøm. Jeg slumrer endnu...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX XXaXXXXXbXXXXcXX dXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXXcXXXXcXXXXXXdeXXXXXbXXXXXX XXXXXdXXc XXXXXXeX dXXXXXaXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,16,54,9,8,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011111 11101111010 11111001 111110111 111001110 10111111 1100111110 1001100111 11001111 10000 111 111 10110 111111 1011111 111110 111010 1011 11100 111101 1110110 10 11101101 10 11101 010 11000011110 11001100 10010111111 1011011111 110011110 110101111 111101111 1101111100100 110110110 1101111110 1100111010 11110111 11010000 11000010 11111111 11111111 111011111 110010111 111001111 11111111 1111011110 110111001 11010011110 101111001011 11011111110 10110101 110111000 11011111111 01100111 110011011 11111100 1101110010101101 110110010 1101110101 11011111010 110101110 11110101 111011111 011111100 111111111 1111101110 11111100 010111111 110101110 111011100 10111011 10110111 11111111 1111100111 1110101110 10011110 11010111010 110001111 100 1011111 11011 11001 111110 11101 11011 11111 111111 111101 110110 110111 11101 110111 110111 1111 11001 010 11100110 011011110 110101111 1111111 110111111 11111111101 11010101 111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 610
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 105
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; dr, m, en, pi, saa, er, det, at, den, du, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, den, og, i, han are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mme, nder, d are repeated).
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- summary of Et Mørkt Fangetaarn;
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