This is an analysis of the poem Bøn Til Det Nye Aar that begins with:
Den Gamle har nu lagt sig
Til Evigheden ned;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXXX XbXbXXb XXXXXXX XXXcXXb bXbaXXa XXXXXXX XXXXXXd XbXbXXb XeXXXXe XXXXXXd XfXfXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 110001 1110111 110111 11111 11101 110101 111111 11011 11111 11111 111100 111111 11111111 111110 11110 1011100 10011 11001 11011 11101 111101 1111 11111 11101 1011010 111110 11111 111111 011100 101111 110111 111111 110011 11111 111110 111111 101101 110011 01101 11111 10001 1111 111101 11011 11111 11011 11011 11111 110101 11101 11101 11111 111111 10011 11111 111111 10101 11011 111100 11011 11101 11111 11011 111111 11101 11010 111110 111111 11111 11111 11111 101101 1100011 111111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rte, re are repeated).
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More information about poems by Christian Winther
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