This is an analysis of the poem Cantate that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXAXbXXXXX cXdXXXXX XXXXXXXe XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXe XXXXX XXffX XaXXX XXXX aXXXeXXX XXXXXXXX XgXgXXfa XXXXhXXX XXXbXaXa XXaaXbX XXXXXiXX aXaXXaXX XXXXXjXj XXXAXXXX cXXfaaX hXXXdXX XiXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,11,8,8,4,8,8,5,5,5,4,8,8,8,8,8,7,8,8,8,8,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1000001011100110000 1011000 10011 11011101 11111010 11011100 1110111 0111101 11011111 11110100 0111101 1111101 11010111 10110111 10111010 110011 1111101 1011110 111101 101111 11111 1010011 10110110 1010101 1110111 10011110 111011 0110110 1110100 1110011 11101 111011001 11111111 111001 111110111 1111101 111011101 101100111 10101011 11110111 1010111010 111111110 11110011 111111101 101001110 10101111 101111 01110011 11110111 10111111 1100100111 111110111 11011 111111101 111011111 1111101010 1101110001 1100010 111111010 1101001101 11111101 11001001 111101 1101100111 100010011 11101 111011001 11111111 11101 1101111 110101010 1111101 110111010 1110101 1100011 1111110 11110101 1100111 1011 101101 111001 11100 111101 10111 100101 110110 111101 111111 10111 1111100 110111 11011010 10101 111101 101101 1101011 101101 1101111 1101111 110111 110101 110001 101101 1001111 01101 11111 1101111 111101 10111 111101010 1000 101011 111111 110110 101 101011101 1111111110 111 10010100110 1001 10101111 101101001 100010 1001 10111011 111 1111011 1111 100110111 1111110101 10010 100 101110111 1011 10111111 11 1011010110 11101111 10010 1001 11011101 11111010 11011100 1110111 1111000 11110111 11111110 11101111 100010111 10001111 1011111 110110 11011101 1011111 1111010 1111111 1111111 111111111 11111 1101110 11011100 111101 101 1111 11111001 1011 101 10110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 180
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, den, det, nger, er are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, og, wartburg, det are repeated.

    The author used the same word stjernen 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 nger is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Cantate;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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