This is an analysis of the poem Til Richardsons Clarissa that begins with:
O du! som ofte saae min Taare rinde,
Du som medlidende den tidt modtog,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXaXXcXXcXaXaXXXXXXXXXbXdXXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXXXXdXXXXcXXXXaXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 88,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111111 011001110 110111111 111111001 11111111 101011101 10011111 1101110000 010101001 110110111 110101010 110110011111 111100111 110010111 11111101 1101111101 11011111111 1001110111 110111111 110110011 10111111 1101011001 111111111 0101110111 11101111 11111001 110010111 110101011 11111111 111111101 010111110 10011101 101111111 110111111 1110111101 0111011000 110111010 1111111011 011010110 01111101010 1101001111 1001110101 110101101 110101111 11111111 1111111 111101111 11101111 111111011 01011111 1101011110 11111110 111101111 1010010011 11111111111 1111011 1111010111 11101101 11111010 1110110 101111111010 101111101 11111100 110101111 11110000110 10011100 10011111110 1010010010 111111001111 1111110111 111000101 11011111 11111000100 1101111101 101101101 111110111 1011010110 11011111 11110111010 11010001 1100011110 1111101111 01000111 001111011111 111111101 111100101 1101001110 110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3638
- Average number of words per stanza: 666
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; som, de, d, kun, er, hvis, min, dig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words did, tidt, o, du are repeated.
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- Analysis of Til Sangen
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