This is an analysis of the poem Halfdan Kjerulf that begins with:
Winter had sought his life's tree to o'erthrow,
Youthful and strong. But his blood's vernal flow...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabb aaccddcc bee Xb bbeeaaffXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,3,2,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110110100 1011101101 10011011010 10010110010 10010110010 11011010110 10010010110 11011010010 1111 10111001101 1001001001 1011001001 1011001001 1101 100111100100 1111001001 1101101001 1 10100 100101101 1111001001 10101001001 1001011101 10110111010 10010011010 1001011011 0011001001 10110 11010010110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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