This is an analysis of the poem Sultanens Divan that begins with:
Nu, nu! Han har jo ikke nødig just
At støde mig i Siden. Staae han rolig...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbX XcdXX XcXeX cafXdXXXgcXXXXcXXa bXahX cXXX XXXXcX cXXiXXXXXXXXX XbXc cbXXXXX XcXXieXXXXcXXbj cXXbei XXXXXj cXX a cebkXXXecXaXXXhXXXXXXXXfXXkXXXXX XXagXXXXXXXcXXXeXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,5,5,18,5,4,6,13,4,7,15,6,6,3,1,32,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 1111101110 1101010101 11111101 10100 111011111 1111110111 110111111 1111011100 10 111100111 1111010110 1101111110 10111 10 1111 1011011111 110111111 1101011111 1011110111 111101101 11011011000 11011100 11110101110 1100011110 110110110 11101111 100111101 111111101 111111111 10110111110 1111011101 1011 111101111 11111111 111010110 11100001 100 10111010111 11111001 0110 100100 101 111001111 110110111 11111101 111110 100 110 111101111 011011001 1111111101 1111110101 111101111 111111111 11011101100 110011101 111111101 111101110 10101111 100 1101111 111111111 110110100 100 111111011 1100111100 1101010111 111101110 100111011 1111111101 100 1011001110 1100110000 110101101 11011111 11111011110 111110101 111011101 11011110 11111010 110100110 11000101000 1110111 011101111 11 100 11100111 101101111 1111011011 1101101110 0101011111 100 1101010111 110101111 11101001 111111110 1101110101 100 11111111 110111110 100101011101110101111 100 11011110010 11011111111 11111111 11101111 111110010 111110110 1011111110 11111111 111100100 101111111 110111101 110111110 11011111 1111110110 110111110 11111001 110110111 1101111 1110011 11001101 11100110 11111001 11111111111 1101110111 1111111101 1011110111 1001111000 110111011 1101010101 111111110 11011111100 10110 1101111111 1111111101 111111111 0101011001 110111011 110111111 11000111000 11111101 10111111 1111111110 11111111 111101111110 111111111 11010101000 1110011110 110111011 11101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 319
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; hun, at, jeg, er, den, der, han, de, fyrgetyve, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, min are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines soliman is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase soliman connects the lines.
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