This is an analysis of the poem Der Sittrer Paa Mine Læber that begins with:
Der sittrer paa mine Læber
Vel tusind blomstrende Ord;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXb XXXX XcXc XXXX XdXd XaXX XXXX XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111 110101 110101 11000010 11111 11011 111100 1011 011111 11111 11111 111101 1101111 101111 110101 11111 110110 110101 11011 1100111 11011 011011 11101 111101 11001 1110101 110011 110101 0111010 10011 111010 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 99
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (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; og, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word der is repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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