This is an analysis of the poem From The Cantata For N. F. S. Grundtvig that begins with:
His day was the greatest the Northland has seen,
It one was with the midnight-sun's wonders serene:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb XXccXXdd ddee ffaa gghh ccii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01101001111 011001111001 0101111010111 1111010111011 0101110 100 11 010111111001 1011111 10 101 0111010110101 010111100101 0101111010101 0101111111101 1101010011111 01011111011 1111010010111 0101111110101 1101011111101 01011101011 0110010010111 0101111011101 11110101111001 010111011001 010111101111 0101111011101 0110111010011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 222
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, in, god's, peace, light are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word in at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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