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

Hindbad.
I fromme Islamitter! da I lytte...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXbXXXXXXbcXbacXXXXdXXbXXXeXXXXXffdXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXXXXfXfXXfXb cX Xg XXgXX XXXhXX XX XX XX XX XX Xb XX Xb XXX XXX XX XX XaX XXXXXX XhhXXXaXeffXXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,2,2,5,6,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,2,2,3,6,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 111000111 110011111 11110111 1100101100 1111001101 1110101010 101111100 1101111110 11111110110 110111111 1110110100 1111111111 111101110 11110111010 01011111000 1011010111 0101111111 11111110 110111110 1100111010 1110011110 110110011 111110010 111011000 1111111010 110101111 1111011101 1101110100 11110111 1111011011 111111110 111011101 1011011101 110101101 111001011 111111111 1001100010 110111110 11111111 110001101 110011110 11101111 11010101100 110101110 11111011 1101110001 1111111011 111111110 1101110111 110111101 111010110 110111111 11011101110 10111111 111111110 111111011 111111011 1111101 111010111 1110111 1111111010 110111010 1101011010 1001111011 1110 0101110110 10 111111 10 1111100110 111111111 1101101110 111111100 10 10111001 11101111110 111111111 1001101100 11101110 1110 1101100111 110 11111101 11 11110111 11 1111010111 11 1111110111 11 111111011 11 111111010 11 11111101010 11 111001101 10111111 11 101110010 11110100 11 11011 11 111 11 11111011 01 11010 11110110100 1110111010 1100111 1111111100 11 1100 100111101 11111110 111111110 11001101010 1111111 1101011010 111001011 11011111 111111101 110111111 11111111 11111101 11110111 101111110 11111101 111110110 11111011 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 134
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; at, den, er, re, i are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words en, den 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 re, det are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word st at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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