This is an analysis of the poem Der Var Saa Ensomt Og Saa Stille that begins with:
Der var saa ensomt og saa stille
Der, hvor jeg laae paa grønne Strand;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb XaXX XXXX XcXc XXXX XbcX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 1111111 111101 1111101 1101101 111011 1111110 111111 1100111 1101011 1101111 11110 11111000 10011111 11011100 1101111 11011110 110111 1111110 1101110 11110101 11001101 111111101 11011000 1111110 1111111 110101010 1111111 11111111 11011110 111111011111 01111110 1101001 11011101 11011110 10011011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; d is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, min are repeated.
The author used the same word min at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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