This is an analysis of the poem Til Frøken Ida Brun that begins with:

Digteren.
Sophienholm! hvi mørkner du din Himmel?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbXXX XXXXXXXcX XXXXXXaXX XXbXbcXdd cXcXXXXX XeXeXXeXX XXXXXbbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,8,9,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100 100110110 111111110 1101101110 110101111 11010101 111010101 10010111 11011100 100 1111011110 10111111000 1111101 11101110 11111111 111010011 111100 110111 100 1001010110 1101001 0110111 01010101 1111011 1100111 1101111 101010 100 11111111010 1111010111 110111110 1011110101 11111111010 111010 11101111 11010111 1101011010 11101101 1101011110 11101111 110001110 1100101 110101011 111101 100 11011110 10101111 1111011110 111001011 11011100000 11011000010 1011101000 11111111 1101111110 1101011111 11111110 1101101 1101011 101101 11001101 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 289
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 61
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; hvi, her, hun, i are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nt is repeated).

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  • summary of Til Frøken Ida Brun;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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