This is an analysis of the poem Poenitenten. Et Fragment that begins with:
Hvis var den tunge, velsignende Haand, som berørte mit Øye,
Vandrere? — ligner han Jordens Gud, som han stod for sin Skaber -...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXXaXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001111111 101011011111110 1011011011111110 0111111110010 10110111101101 1011111010100110 111011011110 11111100111001 10111011111011 11101111011100 10111110111111111 1001111111001 100101101111110 1011101111110 1010111110110110 10111101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 981
- Average number of words per stanza: 187
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; han, som, og, af, hans are repeated.
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