This is an analysis of the poem Marias Canzone that begins with:

Da jeg imorges aabnede mit Öie
da hopped Spurven glad paa törre Tage,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXaX XXXXaXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXbXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11100101111 11101111 1101110 11011111 11110111 111110101 0111 110101111 111111101 10110 110111110 1111011010 1101111000 11110110010 111001001 111001101 1111101 101111111110 1111111111 1111 1111101101110 1111100110 111000 01011111110 11111001 111011101 110111100 10011101 1101001000 11011111 111011110 111111110 1010010 110011111 1101011101 11010 111011101 110101101 111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 469
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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, de are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, og are repeated.

    The author used the same word en 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 de, ve are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.

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

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