This is an analysis of the poem Havblik that begins with:

Har Du seet Havet i en klar og stille Nat,
Naar Fladen ligger som et Speil saa glat,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110111111 1101011111 11011100 1001110101 1111101 11011111 1101101111 11111110111 11110011101 110111111 100010001 1101 1101000 1100100 11001111101 110110001 111111010 1100110 11100111000 1101011101 1101011101 110101011 111101110101 11110011 1100111101 11110111 1101110110 111111100 101111111 11100011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 214
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word et is repeated.

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

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

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