This is an analysis of the poem Over By, Fra Taarnets Kroner that begins with:

Over By, fra Taarnets Kroner,
Under Himlen kold og graa,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXbb aXXX XXXX aXXX XXXX XbXb 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: 10111010 1010111 10001000 1111111 1001101 111100 101001 101101 111110 11111 10110010 101011111 111111100 10111100 11100110 1111010 1111110 111101 1111111000 1111101 111111 101100 111000 1110100 111110 1110111 1100111 1111101 101011 111101 1110100 111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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