Piazza Barberina by Ludvig Bodtcher: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Piazza Barberina that begins with:

Den lumre Nat har skjænket sine Gaver,
Og frisk som et Glas Vand er Morgenluften:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXa XXXbbXXX XXXX cXXccXXXaXb dadXXXbX XXXXXXdX XXXXXaXXXX XeXXeXXXXXX fXXfXXXXX XXXbXaXXXdaaXXXdX aXXXXXXaXXXaXXcXX XXXXXggXXaXXXXXXX abXX XfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,4,11,8,8,10,11,9,17,17,17,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 11111101000 1001010110 11100010 1000011100 10011101 11111 11010111 11011101 1111110 110001110 1101011 11101101 11101111 0101110 1110111 100111001 1111010 1101011 101110 1101001 01010101 11110100 110111100 111010 1101111 1111111 0110001 11111010 1111010111 11111100 111111 1111111000 111110111 1100111110 1111010111 110111000 1111101 11110001 1111111 11101110 1110101110 1111110011 11111111 11011100 11001100 111011010 1011111101 11110110 110100101 111110001 100110010 11000110 1110011 11010101 1101111 11000110 1111011 111110001 1111110001 111101111 11001111 10010111 1111111 110000010101 111110101000 11010110010000 1111010111 01110110 11100111 10111110100 01111100 1101111111 110111001 111100 111011111 110101111 01111101 1110111010 11111101100 1001111110 111110110 111111 111101110 11001011010 1111111010 111011100 1101110110 1101110011 11011101110 11111010 1111110 1001111 1110001 1111010111 111111 1111110 110011010 1101111101 111110101 110111111 10010101110 01110111110 1110010111 110111011 110110111 110111100 110111100 110111011 11110101110 1111010111 1111011111 110111111 11011111 110101011 111100 11100110 11110111 11111101 1101011 01111011010 111110101 11011100 11011110 11111110 11110111 1111111 110111100 11111100010 1111111 1111101010 11101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 65
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, at, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, som, og, et are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines t, der are repeated).

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