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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