This is an analysis of the poem Da Thora Var Syg that begins with:
Thora, da de mumled her,
Du var syg og Døden nær,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXbb XXXXXc XXXXcc aaXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010100 011111 1001111 111101 1011111 1010111 111100 111100 101101 111101 1011101 111011 11111 101100 11101 101111 11011 1111101 101101 1111111 1110111 1011111 1111100 1111111 1011111 111111 111111 1010100 1010101 1011101 10101010 1111010 11111 1111 1101111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; da, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word elsket is repeated.
The author used the same word og 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 jeg is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word dig at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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