This is an analysis of the poem Mignon I Graven that begins with:

Sover Du Lille? Øiet er lukket,
Lokken ei bølger, tyst er nu Sukket....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX aabX XXXb XXaX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10011010 101110110 10011101 10111 1101010110 11101110 10110111 10111011 100100110 1110101 101110010 10011010 10010111 111111011 10111100 1010111010 1011110110 1101111010 101110010 1001000110 1110111 10110101 100111110 100110110 101111101 1001011001 101101110 10111010 1010010010 11101010 1011011 10111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; du, er, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ngsel, gtig, sten are repeated).

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  • summary of Mignon I Graven;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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