This is an analysis of the poem Luca Signorelli that begins with:

I Salens dybe Skygge
Sad Mester Luca træt;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XXXXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XcXcXXXX XXXXXXbX XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX bXbXXaXX XXXXXXXX XXXXaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 110101 110001 110110 11101 0111 111100 100100 110001 11111 1001110 110100 1111010 111101 111111 1111 111110 10011 11111 11101 110110 11011 110111 110011 111110 1101101 1100100 110101 11110 11011 1111010 11011 11111 11011 110111 111111 100100 111100 11111 111100 0111 01111 11001 110100 1101110 110101 11011 11101 1001010 100101 111110 111111 10111 111101 11110 11101 110001 11011 11110 11110 11101 0110 1111010 01101 110110 11101 1110010 11101 110011 11111 11011 11111 110100 10111 11101 111100 110100 110001 1111010 11011 110111 11111 110111 111101 110111 111101 110100 10001 111110 111101 111110 11111 111110 11001 11111 110100 111101 111101 110010 111101 111010 11011 1101110 11111 111100 10111 111110 1110 101111 111101 111010 110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; hans, de, en, d are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vel, de, henover, og are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Luca Signorelli;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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