This is an analysis of the poem Den Forgangne Tid that begins with:
Vilde forfra Du begynde Dit forsvundne Liv igjen
Med dets Fryd og lange Smerte?« saa Du spørger mig, min Ven,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX XaaXXXXXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010110110 111111101111 111111111100 1111000111111 111110111110 11111111110 101001101110111 10110111100 101000011101 11101110111100 10111011110110 111101111101 1111000111111 111001101111101 11111101011 10110101011101 111110101110111 111110111111 111111011111011 1010111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 564
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; med, dets, i, den, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word med is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines m is repeated).
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