This is an analysis of the poem Ravnen that begins with:
Da paa Solferinos Høje Kampens store Stund var nær,
og den første Morgenstraale lyste paa den franske Hær,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110001101111 11110011111 1110111111001 1110010101110111 1110110111100 1110111011111 10011101111 111011100101110 1111111010111 11101111111 100011000101111 100111110010 11110001110111 1111010101101 111110011011101 1111101011100 11110001110001 11101010110101 10111110111011 10111101000100 11100101111101 11110101111111 10101011010111 100011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- 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; r, den, paa, han, som are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, bt are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase r connects the lines.
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