This is an analysis of the poem Livet En Drøm that begins with:

Til Vennen
Du kjender Grunden til min dybe Smerte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XaXaXX XXXXXX XXXXbXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXbX XXXXXbXXbXXXXXXXXcXcXXXXXXXXXaXaXXXXXcXcXXXXXdXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,6,6,15,11,64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110 010101111 01011111111 1101111111 111111111 1111111111 111110101 111110011 111111111 101111111 1011111 110101101 111111101 1001110011 11010101111 111111101 11110111 1101110101 111111110 1 1111011011101 111011111101 110100100100 1111101110110 1011000101100 111111011000 101101111000 0111111110010 11101011110111 111111010011 010011111101 1011111111111 1001011011110 1110111011110 1 110101101 10111111 10111101101 101111101 1111111 1010101011 101101101 1101111 111000 11110 1001101 1111111 1111101 111111 111111 111010 1111110 101111 111110 111100 11111110 11110 11111110 111100 1110110 111101 1110111 10010111 11111 1011101 10011111 1110110 1111111 1111101 11011110 1011101 11111010 110101 111111 111111 1111111 10111 0111111 1001111 11111 1011101 111101 110111 111101 11111 111011 1111 101111 111111 10111110 111101 1011111 10111111 1110111 01111111 10111110 111011 111111 1010110 11101 1101 1011111 11111111 11101 1110111 00111110 110101 11011 10000110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 688
  • Average number of words per stanza: 127
  • Amount of lines: 111
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; du, er, ie, dr, og, jeg, var are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, o, d are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ie, ben are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word miste at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Livet En Drøm;
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  • history of its creation;
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