This is an analysis of the poem Hjemkomsten that begins with:
Aldrig glemmer jeg den skjønne Dag,
Da jeg atter steg iland paa Stedet,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa bXXX cXXX dcdc XXXX XbXb bXXX XXXX XXXX eXeX XbXb XfXf ebXb gXgX hXhX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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 1110110110 11111100 10110111 1111111 110111110 10111110111 1111111010 10110111 1011110 11101111 1111111000 1011100111 111111 1111111 111011100 1111101 10101101 111011101 11011101 1111111 1111111 1011111 101111100 1100111111 11001111 101011111 10011111 11111111 1110111011 10111111 1110111 1111111 11101111 101010101 1111111 1100111111 11110110 1110101 11101111 1111111 10110111 11110110 11011111 11110001 11110111 11111011 101110111 11110101 1101101110 11011111 11101110 10101101 1011011 101011100 1010111 11110111 111110110 111110111 11111111 11011101 1010011010 111011101 1111111000 10111111 11111100 1010111111 11111100100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 68
- 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; jeg, og, var, d, det, er, havde are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words h, og are repeated.
The author used the same words og, men 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 hun connects the lines.
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- summary of Hjemkomsten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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