This is an analysis of the poem Nattetanker that begins with:
Fredrik
Nu hviler den tause, dæmrende Nat...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaX bXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXcX XXbX XXDE XXXX fXfX XXXX XXXX cXXX XXDE XXXd bXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10 1101111 10011 1101111111 101111 1101111 111101 1101111001 110010 11011111 110111 1101111111 1111101 1111011 111011 11111101 1011011 110110111 1111110 11010101 1111011 1101101000 1101101 11111111 111111 1111001110 111110 1101111101 111110 11111001001 1110101110 101010111 111110110 11111111 111111 110111101 1111001 1011111 1011101 1101111101 111111 11111101 11101101 11111111 1101110 11111101 1100011100 111010111 10111110 1010111 11011101 111011101 111101 1010111010 11010010 101010111 111110110 100111111 11101110 11110111111 1111011 10101110111 101011 111101001111 11111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 65
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; hun, snart, jeg, mit, det are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words snart, og are repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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