This is an analysis of the poem Til Nanna that begins with:

Kjære Nanna! det er simpel Pligt,
At jeg svøber udenom de fine...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaX bXXX aXXX XXcX XXXd XXXX XXXa eXXe XXXX bXcb XddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101 11110001 1111101 1100001 101111 11001010 1111111 111101 1111001 111001010 11111000 111000111 11111101 1111000 110111110 1110010 11100011 11111111 111101010 111110111 111111 1001110 011101100 1011111 111001100 1111111 1010011 1101110 10100101 11111101 10111011 11101111 111110111 11011010 100100110 101111 11000101 111011110 010011010 11110001 101001111 11100101 1100001 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, et, du are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words kan, paa are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines kkre is repeated).

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

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