This is an analysis of the poem Sørgesangen that begins with:
Daggry var det — Dæmringstiden -
Der hvor Nat og Dag sig møde;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011100 1111111 101101 1110110 11101110 111110 11111100 101101 10111001 11101100 10111000 1101100 1010110 111110 11100010 1111010 111011 101011111 1011101 101001 1001110 100111 101100 1010001 111111 11100110 111110 11100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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.
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- summary of Sørgesangen;
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- idea of the verse;
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