This is an analysis of the poem Dag Og Nat that begins with:
Med en svag og uvant Tunge,
Men med Hjertets stærke Slag,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXX bXXXcXXXcc XdXXXXXX XeXXXXfX XXXXXX fXfXXXdX XXXXbbXX XXcbXXXX XXXXeXXX XXXXXXcX XXXXXbXb XgXgXXXX cX XX XX XXXXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,8,6,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,2,2,2,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 111011 1010011 11111 10111 011101 101011 11101 1101101011 110101111 1101111 110111011 110101111 11101101 11010111100 11010111 110101111 1110111 11101 1010111 111110 111001 111010 10111010 10101010 111001 11011110 1111111 11000110 1111111 1111010 11011 1100010 110010 1101010101 1101010 11111110 11011101 0101010 11010111 1110110 101111 10101110 1110110 1010111 1110111 1011001 1010110 10111110 101111 111110 1010101 1011101 1111 101111 101110 1110101 11111 1111111 111111 1111111 11111111 111011 111111 1011100 111100 101011 11111 1011111 101111 111111 101011 111110 110100 11010 11011 110001 11111 1001111 111100 1101100 01010 1101000 11111 11101 01101 0111 110101 111110 11001 1001010 111001 110111 110111 11011 111111 11011111 1101111 11111101 1101111 1101111 11011001 1111011 11111001 1110101 1001100 11011101 111111 1100111 111100
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, hvor, til, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, en, de are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines je, de, lver are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases dag, de connect the lines.
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