This is an analysis of the poem Johannes that begins with:
Hvad er det hist, som ringer?
En Aftenklokke dybt i Skoven klinger!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXaXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011110 1100111010 1111100110 111111100 1101010 110111100 011111 1110111 110101 1101101101 10001111110 111011110 11101 110011101 111110 1101111110 1101010 11010001 1111011101 11101111 11010110 110110010 1100100 11101110 0111000 11011101100 1111101010 1111111100 111101 11011111 10111 1111110111 10111 1111011101 110111110 11011101110 111110 11011011 11111 110111101 11110 11010111110 0101110111 110110011 1111010 1111111110 11111 1100110011 01111 1101010101 1101100 111100110 11011001010 1110111100 111111010 01011111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 277
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; og, som, jeg, du, de, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word naar is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ge, ngler, ie, ver, mme, de are repeated).
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- summary of Johannes;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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