This is an analysis of the poem Johanne Luise Heiberg that begins with:

Nu drages med Sort det lyse Hus
Remisen for Thespis' Kærre;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaab XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXb XXccX XXaXX XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 1001101 11111111 101101 111010 1100011011 110101 11011101 11110101 1111 111110011 11010110 111101001 1110010 11110000 11110111 110010 111011111 101011011 11011101 11110110 1101101 11011101 1111110011 1011010 11111101 110101 111110001 1101001001 1111001 1101101110 1101011 11001011 1100111011 11001001 11010011001 1110110 11111110 101111100 1001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; nu, og, en are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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