This is an analysis of the poem Sonet that begins with:

Som naar en Draabe, født i Morgenrøden,
Selv i sit Fald med tusind Farver praler,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111111100 11111101010 11110001100 110010010 11111111 1101110010 11111101100 1101010111 100011011111 110111111 1111110111 101011111 1101110101 101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines den is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word den at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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