This is an analysis of the poem Misericordia! that begins with:
Der lyder en Sang, en forunderlig Sang,
Om Natten naar Livets Travlhed blunder;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXb XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011110001 1101101010 11011101 1011011010 1111111111 1101100100 11100100 101111 11110111 110111101 111101101 11111011 111101001 1111111010 1110011 101101 1101111111 1100100010 110111111 1011111 111101101 11001011001 1110111 1101101 1111101 1100111110 1100101001 1011000 11101101 1110111010 110101111 1110110 11111111 11111011 11011011 1110111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, jeg, den, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saa, hvor are repeated.
The author used the same words jeg, den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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