This is an analysis of the poem Blikket that begins with:
Du aabner halvt kun Øiet -
Men denne Spalt, den Strimmel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111 111110 11101 1100010 1101000 01110 11110 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 104
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 8
- 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; saa is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word saa is repeated.
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