This is an analysis of the poem Til Teresina that begins with:
Tag her et flygtigt Rids fra hine Tider,
hvor Livet var ét Arbejd og én Fest;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXbXcX aXaXXXXX XXXcXcXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011110 1101110111 11110111110 110010111 111111111 111011001 11111111 11111100 1111101111 1111111110 01111110 101111110 1110010111111 1001111111 1111011101 110111111 111111111 110111010 111111011 111111111001 110111001 1101110101 1101110111 111111111101 1111111111 0101011111 110101101 10111111 1111110111 11111011 10111111 1111101011 01111101100 110111111 0110101010 111110111 111111010 110011111101 110111111 1101111110 1111111111 110111110 111111111 110110111110 001111110 1111011101 1111111110 111101111 11010111110 11101001 11111111000 1101111100 11111100 1101111111 111111101 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 323
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; vi, jeg, i, dit, mig, det, du, og, sv, den are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, dit are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase frem connects the lines.
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