This is an analysis of the poem Bortreisen that begins with:

Aldrig glemmer jeg den skjønne Nat,
Da hun til mit Telt kom bly og bange,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXXX cdXX ebeX XXXX XXXf XXXX XXXX Xggg XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXc XXcX XXXX XXXX XdXd XXcX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXe eXXX ebcX dXXX XXXX XXfd XXXX aXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101111 11111111111 111111 1111111 111111 111011101 11111111 1111101 10111011 11111110 011000111 111010110 1111111 11101011 11110101 1111110101 1111011 101011100 10101111 1110101110 1101111 11011101 10111111 11111001 110001111 111111110 11111011 111111010 11111101 111110110 111111101 111111100 111111111 1111011 11111101 110011111 0111111 1011101110 1011101 111111110 1011111 1011011 11101111 1101011 1100111 1100110010 101001101 111111110 101111111 110111000 10101111 111111110 11001101 100111110 101111 10101010 11110101 10111110 10110101 10111100 10111111 1111100110 001110100 0011111010 10110101 1111110010 111001100 1011100010 101010110 111110101 111011101 1110110100 1011111 11111111 1101111 11111111 101010110 111011110 10110111 111011000 111011110 11111011 101010001 111111101 111011111 111111000 111000111 111010010 111011101 101111100 11111101 1111100 11101011 10111101 11011111 11011011 1100110 101010101 111101101 111011011 10100111 101101110 111001101 11001000 100011100 1011100010 11010111 101011010 1111001 11011101 111110101 11011110 1111111 10111100 100011101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; som, to, og, saae, hun, jeg, du, i, her, er, at are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words t, som, og, her, at, seer are repeated.

    The author used the same words vi, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase vaargudinden connects the lines.

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  • summary of Bortreisen;
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  • history of its creation;
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