This is an analysis of the poem Nytaarsvers that begins with:

Musa kom med Blomsterkurvens
Søde Pragt ved Vintertide....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXabcXbXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXccXXXXXXaXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,23,20,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111000 111100 1000101 11110011 11111010 10111100 1111110 10101000 1011000 1101111 100111 1011011 11111 111101 101011 111110 11111 1111000 111111 1011100 101101 1101110 1110100 101101 0101110 10100110 100111 101111 1011110 1101101 11111 10001011 11111100 11110 1010111 111101 1011111 1110101 111101 1110101 101101 11111 10100 11111100 11111010 1011110 1101010 1101001 10001010 111011 1001110 1111100 10111010 101011 1111111100 10101110 1110100 111100 111111 10101110 1111101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
  • Average number of words per stanza: 111
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; vil is repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Nytaarsvers;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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