This is an analysis of the poem Gibs-Billedet that begins with:
Men hvo er da den Mand, som staaer
Paa Skabet her, i dette Kammer?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXXb XXcXXXXX XXcXXXXX XXXXXddb cXXXbXXb XaaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11001110 1111010 1111110011 11100011 111111 11001110 11110101 11101101 11011111 11010101 11011101 1111110 110111010 010111110 11111110 1110111 11111101 1110001 1111101111 1111110 1111101 1111111 1110100 11011111 1111110 111011100 1111001 11011101 11011001 111011111 111101 11010111 111110 1111001 1111011 01010111 1111101 11011101 1101111 11100101 11111110 1111110 11010100 1101111 110101010 110101100 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 284
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- 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; som is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, som are repeated.
The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vet, de, ye are repeated).
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