This is an analysis of the poem I Byen that begins with:
Vildt Tø-Sneen tumler
Fra Nattens sorte Sky;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XXXX babX Xcdc XXXa cXcX XXXX XeXe XXXX XXXf XXXb XXdX XXfX gXXX XXXX chch XhXX bXXX XXXX bXXX aXXX XhgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110 11011 10011010 11111 1111 11101 11011 1100100 10110 1110001 1101110 111100 111111 110111 1101001 110101 110011 11010 11111 11101 111101 111111 110011 111111 111010 111101 11011100 11111 1011110 1001011 1011010 111111 1101110 111111 1101110 110101 1111010 11101 10101110 1111 11111 11111 111111 1111010 11101 111101 111101 101101 1111010 110111 11111110 111101 110011 100111 11100 110111 1101111 11111 111011 11010 1011011 11101 111001 110101 1111100 111101 11111 10111 111110 110011 11011010 111100 11111 11111 1101011 101101 1101110 11011 110110 10111010 111101 111100 11011 110010 11110110 111111 1111010 11011001
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; en, i, og, hans, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hun, det are repeated.
The author used the same word men at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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