This is an analysis of the poem Øhlenschlägers Collegium that begins with:
Som i Onyxens dunkle Aarer vinder
De skjønne Former sig i dunkle Halle,...
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: 11100101010 011011101 011110001 1100111100 111101110 111110010 1101001101 0110111000 10110100 11101101 11111001 1110011011 110111110 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word re at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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