This is an analysis of the poem Hvem Kalder Paa Mig? that begins with:
Hvem kalder paa mig, naar jeg søvnløs drømmer
Med Haanden under Kind og Øjet lukt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXaXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXbcbX XXXXXXXX bdbdXaXa XdXdcaXX XXaXXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111111 110101111 1111011 110101111 11111110 1111010011 110010110 1111010111 1101101111 110111010 110101100 10111001010 111111 10101111010 1111001 1110100010 1111110101 1111110001 11111101 110101101 11101111111 1101111111100 101111111111 1111111 1101101110 11010111 1101110110 11011001 101111100 1111100010 101011011 1101111110 1111111101 1101101 1111010111 1111011 1100011101 1111111001 1100010111 11111100 110111111 1101110001 110111101 110111111 11111101 111111111101 110111111 110101011 1101111101 111110110 110111001 1111111010 1101111111 100111111 1111010111 111101011 1100110001 11100101110 1111011111 110010110 111001111 1101011101 111110110 11111101100 100010011 101111100 1110110101 11110100000 110101111 1101111000 0101111110 11110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s, som, jeg, d, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word som is repeated.
The author used the same word hvem at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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