This is an analysis of the poem Englen Israfil that begins with:

Da Herren vendte bort sit Aasyns Straaler
Fra Lucifer, som stod med trodsig Mine,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXcXXXXXXXXXXXbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111010 1100111101 111110111 1111010110 11101011 1101100 11011101 111001101 101001100 1110110 1111101 111111101 1111101 1010111 110110111 110111111 111111111100 1111011101 111110011 11011111 1111101101 1111101 01110101 1111111101 11011110 01110110100 100111010 1101001101 1111011111 11101011 1011011101 111010111 110110111 110101111 110100100100 1101011100 111101101 11110111000 11111101000 11111111 111111010 110111111 1101011101 1101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1683
  • Average number of words per stanza: 330
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; og, de, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).

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  • summary of Englen Israfil;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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