This is an analysis of the poem Jeg Hører I Natten Den Vuggende that begins with:
Jeg hører i Natten den vuggende
Lyd fra Venezias Vand;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbXXbccXX XdaaXXXXXdXXX XXaXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110 111001 110110 11010 1111010 10111 011101 11000001 1101010 01110111 11000101 101111 101001 1111011 11111 11010 110110 1111111 11111110 1101101 11100 1101101 110111111 100111000 111101 101001 110110110 111101 110110 11010 11100100 110101 010101 101101 1101010 1101110011 1111111100 1011011 101001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 374
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, de, som, g, det 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 jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, jet are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word de at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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