This is an analysis of the poem Burgos that begins with:
Det fyger saa voldsomt derude,
Halv Alen høit ligger der Snee,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabaXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXcXbbXXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011010 11011011 10011111 110111 11001111 11011011 0101001 110110 1101100 1111111 11010111 11111001 1111110 1111011 1110110 11011010 110001100 101101111 11010110 1111010 1101111 11011111 1101111001 11111011 1100101 111110 111001 1111111111 1111111 1111111 111111 1101011 11010111 1101011 111111111 1101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1100
- Average number of words per stanza: 230
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; jeg is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, hun are repeated.
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More information about poems by Hans Christian Andersen
- Analysis of Hvad Der Skal Skee, Det Skeer, Græd Du End Blod;
- Analysis of Zahle
- Analysis of Jylland [jylland Mellem Tvende Have]
