This is an analysis of the poem Sang Af Bajazet that begins with:
Du kastede dit Blik paa mig, og jeg forfærdedes,
Thi tvende Flammer brændte deri,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX aX XX XaX XX XXX Xaa XX XX XXa XX XX XbX Xb XXXX XXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,2,3,2,3,3,2,2,3,2,2,3,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111111100 1110110 011111 111111011 111111100111111 1101111011 1111111100 111111101 110011111 101110 111010100 1001110110 1001111111 1011011 1111111011 11101111000 11101101 11110111111 1111111111110 1111 111111100 10111111101 11011110 1101111 1011101 1111101 10110110 1111101111100 1110110101101 11111111 1110101 111100111 1111100110 11011110101 111010111 1111100 1110111110 11101 111100 11101101 10101111100110 110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 103
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, jeg, din are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hvi is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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More information about poems by Johannes Carsten Hauch
- Analysis of Sang Af Hamadryaden
- Analysis of Sang Af Marsk Stig
- Analysis of Sang Til Adam Oehlenschläger Den 14. November 1849
