This is an analysis of the poem Sulamiths Sang Bag Gitteret that begins with:

Det er ingen Drøm. Jeg hører hans Røst.
Som en Raa paa Bjerget min Elskede springer;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa bXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111 11111011010 11011101100 1010011110 1011111001 1100111111000 101111110 101011010 1111111001 101110110100 1110111111 101011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Sulamiths Sang Bag Gitteret;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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