This is an analysis of the poem I Farens Stund that begins with:

Varsler denne sære Stilhed,
denne tunge, døde Ro,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XaXaXbXb XXXXcXXXXX XXXXXXXXX XXXdcXXXX XXbXXeXX XXdXXXXf XbXXXXXX XXXXXfeXXXXe XXXXXXXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,10,9,9,8,8,8,12,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101110 1111 111110 101111 11111111 111111 1001011 11111 101011 11111011 11011 1010101 111111 111111 111111 101101 11111 111011 11111 111101 111111 111111 1110111 11111 1111101 111111 0111111 11101000 1111110 1011110 1010111 11101 101111 1110111 111111 10111100 111110 1111111 1011101 101101 1011101 11101110 101100 10111100 1110111 1111110 1111110 1110111 1110110 111001 111111 1111110 111111 11101110 1110111 1111110 111111 1010101 111001 111111 1101100 10111110 111110 111100 1111110 11101110 1110110 101100 111100 1111110 101001110 111111 1111000 1011110 1011111 11111 111111 1011101 1110111 111111 1101101 111110 1110011 1011111 111111 111011 1111100 111111 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 89
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ej, og, et, den, kom, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvis, et, og, kom are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines den, nder, ver are repeated).

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  • summary of I Farens Stund;
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