This is an analysis of the poem Til Melpomene that begins with:
O du, som min Siæl
Saa sødt betvang,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcXdXXXXXeXfggXfXXX hXhXcXiggXXbXXfXdXXbXXgXX XXXidXaXbeXXXaXiXXXcXiXXi XXeXXXXXXiXibXXXXeXeXXfgXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,25,25,26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111 1110 1001 1000 1011 1101 11100 11001 11101 1101 111001 10101 11100 1101 1011 11011 1111 10111 101010 101001 100 1111 1010 10101 11011 10001 11011 11001 10011 101001 10010 11101 110001 01011 010011 11001 11011 11101 11001 110010 10011 11101 11011 111001 1111 11001 1111 1111 1111 111 11011 11001 11101 1001 11101 1101 11100 11101 10111 1111 10011 11111 101001 101 1110 11000 1101 11101 1100 1001 11001 11111 11011 111 11011 11101 111001 1111 01001 1101 11001 1111 11101 1111 111 1111 11010 1101 111011 11011 110011 111011 11111 10111 11101 11011 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 488
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 19 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; medens, til are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words medens, med, men are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines sang, priis are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase er connects the lines.
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- summary of Til Melpomene;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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