This is an analysis of the poem Selines Tab that begins with:
Taus er Naturen, Skabningen er øde;
Min Tanke døer i Skræk, min Siel er mat;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXXcdcXXXXdeXfXXXXXXegXgXfdfXhXhXdXXXXXXaXXeXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010000 111111101 1001111101 1001101101 110111111 111010111 1101010111 1111010 111110110 10010101 10110110110 1111001 1111010110 11111101 110111110 11010111 111111111 110111001 111111011 1101110100 110111101 11111011 1111110111 110110101 111110001 111110001 11011101 110110101 111110100 111110101 0101111010 11011111 11011101 11011111 100111011 111010100 111111101001 111010110 1101110111 110111111 1101011101 110110010 11101110 110111101 1101101100 111110110 1001111 1101011101 1011010110 11111111 11111111110 1011111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2074
- Average number of words per stanza: 386
- Amount of lines: 52
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; er, min, nu, vee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words selines, nu are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase mig connects the lines.
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- summary of Selines Tab;
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