This is an analysis of the poem Hvem Er Ikke Nanna? that begins with:

Nattens Spørgsmaal et Par Øieblikke:
Hvem, og hvor, og naar min Nanna var?...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXXX XXXXXX XbbXXcXXX dXdXX XXXefXXXXXXgXXXXXhXXh efXeeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXiXffXXeceeXX XXXXX XXXXjjXccXXjXXj iXXX XaXXcXXX kXkXcXXXXXXcXXXXXllXmXcXXgXhgXXXXXXXXmmXXmmXXXXXXXXXXXXXXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,9,5,21,31,5,15,4,8,58,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011110 111111101 10111001 11101011 1011101 1110111 1011001100 1111111101 111011110 111011101 111010111 11111101 10110011 100111101 101101111 10101101 101001000 1111010 10111101 1101101 101100101 10110011 11110111 11100100 1111011 100011101 100111110 1111111 111010111 110111101 011011101 111111011 1011011 11110111 0111101100 110011101 101110111 1011100010 110011001 10110100 1011010 111110 011110110 11110110 111111101 1111101 101101110 111111101 10110111 11111100 11011101 111000111 1010011 011011100 10111101 101010101 111011111 10101011 1101111 11110011 111010011 011011101 01111011 111011101 11011101 1010111 10111101 11101111 101011111 111011101 11111011 1110111 1111011 1000110110 101011101 111110011 10111101 101110110 111010111 1011011 11111100 11101110 10101101 111011111 111001001 101111111 1010110110 11110111 1111011 111110110 10111010 1010101110 11110100 111010100 10101101 10110101 10101111 11101111 11111101 101111 101111101 10111010100 10101111 1111011 1110111 101011100 111111110 11101111 11110110 101001001 11111011 111011100 111110101 111011101 101010110 111011001 1111000110 111011100 111111 111111100 10111100 111010110 10110001 1111110 11111 111111101 11101101 11101101 1011001 101111010 0110001010 11101011 111011110 11110110 100111100 100100111 111100100 101010010 1011111 1101101110 0111110 10110010 101100011 110101010 10101101 1100111100 11101011 111010110 110001010 100111100 1011011 110011110 111101110 10001001 10111001 11101101 111010111 111010101 1111011 1111100 11100010 11100101 11110111 11110001 101011000 10010100 1111001 111100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
  • Average number of words per stanza: 100
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • 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; som, aldrig, det, med are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words disse, du, at, den are repeated.

    The author used the same words hvem, nei 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 ved, mt are repeated).

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