This is an analysis of the poem Til Hanna that begins with:

November stod saa kold og øde,
Hiemsøgt af Taager og af Regn;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX bbbX cacX XaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011110 1110111 01111 111111 1111101 11110011 1011111 1111011 1101111111 1101110 11011110 1111111 111011 11110011 10011001 10010100 1101111 1111111 11011101 1101111 1111111 1101111 1101101 1101111 1101111 1101111 1101111 11011100 1110011 101111111 1111011 11011101 11011101 0110111 10111101 0111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 134
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; de, foruden, og, den are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Til Hanna;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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