This is an analysis of the poem Havfruen Synger Til Sigurd that begins with:
Jeg kunde mig glæde som du over Livet paa Jorden,
Jeg kunde lyksalig dens Blomster betræde, ak, hvis jeg din Søster var vorden;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXa XXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111101010110 11100110111111110 1111011111 110111101 11110111101 110100111111111011 0111101011 111111111 1011111011001 111010111011001 111111111 1101111001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, naar are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg 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 n is repeated).
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