This is an analysis of the poem Til Vinter-Lærken that begins with:

Hvi qviddrer du saa tidlig hist?
Du troer maaskee, det snart er Sommer?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXXb cXcX XXXX XXXX Xada XXXX XXda XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101 01111010 11010111 11111000 0111101 11111111 1101111 1100011 11111111 1111111 1111101 01111110 01111101 110101010 10110111 110101110 01111111 11100110 11111111 01110111 11110101 11110110 1100011 1100110010 11010101 11010111 0111101 11011101 11110111 110111110 11010011 1111110100 11010101 1110111 1101110 01001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    The author used the same word de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Til Vinter-Lærken;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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