This is an analysis of the poem Ottende Sang that begins with:
Nu laa ved Konens Bryst i liflig Varme
Hver ærlig Bonde tryg i Søvnens Skjød;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,35,12,19,17,38,8,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011101 1111111 110011111 110000111 11101110100 1101011101 11111110100 1111010001 1101111100010 1101111111 111101111111 100101010 11100111101 111011111 1111100110 1101110111 111001001 1001111001 11110111111 11011111 1110101111 1101111110 1101110110 11011111 1111011 111111 11111110 1111111 111101001 1111011011 11010111110 111001111 111011010 01100001111 11100100010 111011111101 10111110101 1111110111 1111001010010 1111011110 1100011111 1101111011 101101011 11111111111 1111111101010 11110011101 111010111010 010110110100 11101110111 1101111100 11110011011 1101100100 111111000 1100010111 11001111 1111011 011011111 110101111 110100001 1101101111 111111111 111111110 111111011 110111110011 11111110111 1111111101 111101011110 11110111111 111011011 11011011011100 110101110110 11111011111 111110111 1111111001 111101110 1111011101 1110011011 1011001111 111111100 1111101111000 1101111111 1111111010 11111110 1110111101 110110111 10111101 11111111 110110001 11101110 11111111100 10101111111 110111111 10011111 111100011 111111111 01111111 100100100 1101011111 1101011101 111111111011 100101111 111110111 111111110 1100100110 111111111 1111010111 1111101111 111111101 110110101 1011111 110100111 110110110 110110110 1101111101 011110001 101001110 11111110 100111100100 11011111111 11111111 11111111 11011111 111111101 1111111101 11111111111 11111000 1101011 11110110111 111111110 11111100 11111110 111110101 111100101 11100111010 111111100 1111110 1101001 101101100 1111111010 1111101 110110101 1111111101 1111110 1111 100100010100 1001011 11010 1001 1111 110111 1110 11011 11011 101010011 1001011111 11111111 101111101 111111 01010101 11111111 110111100 1110101 111101111 11111101 1111101111 1111 11110111 111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 815
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 168
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nu, og, daler, hver, penge, med, kj, b, bet, saa, hid, kom, du, jeg, om are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, i, hver, o, hist, om are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines bet, re, rt are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Ottende Sang;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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