This is an analysis of the poem Den Rædselfulde Time that begins with:

Kom ei Rundetaarn for nær, er det Midnatstide;
Hvad mig nylig hændte der, skal I faae at vide....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbbcXXddXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXeeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001101100 11101111111 11000101111 11101110111 111011011111 11111011111 101010111111 1111011110 11111110110 1111111111110 10101110111 1110101111 101110011011 01101111101 10101110110 101110111001 11110111101 1110011111 111110111111 1111011111 101111101110 111011111100 11110101100 111111101110 1111100100100 11101110000 111111100 11101110110 01110010110 11100011111 1011000110110 111001111110 1110111101110 11101011110 101100011100 111010011101 1010111100 11110111110 110111100110 111111111 10011111110 11110111110 101110111101 1111000111000 1111111101 1111111111111 1110111111 11101001101 11101110101 1111011111 111110010110 11110110111 1001111111 11111000111 1111110100 111011111010 10111011111 10110111111 1110110101110 1101111100 101110010111 11111111101 10111101111110 11111111000 11111110111 11101111011 11111110110 11011100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3223
  • Average number of words per stanza: 646
  • Amount of lines: 68
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; gik, jeg, et, i, en, d are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines se, re, der, rde, ved, gte, nger, den are repeated).

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  • summary of Den Rædselfulde Time;
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  • history of its creation;
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