This is an analysis of the poem Trøst Til Nanna that begins with:
Nanna! skiøndt mig Nastrondspydet dræber,
Før jeg aabenbarer Jorderig,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaXXXaXXXbbXXaXacX XXccXXXXXXdXdXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110001 111000100 11011011 1011011111 11011110 110011101 10110010 10111101 1010110010 10001101 1110111010 111111 101111110 1110011100 11011101 110111101 1110111100 11111001 1110101010 11101010110 1111111010 111010011 1110100100 10101111 101111101 111011001 11011101 11011101 1011111 1110101100 11111111 11111010 11101101 1101111 11001101 10011111 10101101 10011011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 700
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; der, hvor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, dette are repeated.
The author used the same word nanna 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 d is repeated).
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