This is an analysis of the poem 1 Mai 1866 that begins with:
Himlen er saa mørk at see,
Vaade Skyer, graae som Bly!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaXXXXXbXXXcXbXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111 11111 110111 10111111 1111111 1110101 1111001 1011101 10111 1110111 111111 101101 11011111 1111101 101101 111111 111111 0100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hvor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hvor is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines st is repeated).
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