This is an analysis of the poem Skjøn Lilaly that begins with:
Nu skjuler Natten By og Vang,
Nu toner det med sælsom Klang...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXX XXXbcX XXdeeX XXXbXX fggXbX fXXggX XXbXXX XdXcbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1101111 11011101 1101110 11001100 1 1101111111 11011111 11110111 1101111 11001100 1 110110 11011110 11111101 11100100 11001100 1 1101110 111111 11111101 11111111 11001100 1 111111 11110101 1101111 11010011 11001100 1 1101111 111110 11011101 1110111 11001100 1 11001110 1111111 1010011 11011111 11001100 1 1101100 111111 1111011 1111011101 11001100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 160
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 47
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; skj, n, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, hvad are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word lilaly at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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