This is an analysis of the poem Maanen that begins with:
Den Maane den synger en underlig Sang,
Og det kan mit Hjerte fornemme,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011001 111111110 11111100 111101 1101100101 111111 110110111 1101011 1101111111 1011110 110111101 11011100 111111011 11011110 1101111101 11110110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; den, om, de are repeated.
The author used the same word den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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