This is an analysis of the poem Ved Viol-Urnen that begins with:

Du blaa Viol med dine søde Blade,
Der aande himmelsk Duft fra Urnens Rand...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX aXXa XaX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 0111111 111011101 110101111 110110110 110111011 11011010 1111111 111111 11111101101 111111 111111100 111111101 1101111101 10011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 127
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, og are repeated.

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