This is an analysis of the poem Turneringen that begins with:

Gjennem Nattens Øde farer,
Som en stormbevæget Sky,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXX XbXXcXcX XbXXXXXX XXXXXXXd XbXXXXXX cXXXXeXX XbXbXXXX cXcXXXXX XeXfXXXX XXXbXfXX XXXXXfcX XaXXXaXa XXXXcXcX XgXgXXXe XXXXchch XXXXXbcX XXXiXXXX XXXXcXXX XXXXXdXX XXXbjejX XXXXXaXa XXXXXXXX XXXdXeXe XXXXXXXX XiXXXXXc iXXXXXXX XbbXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010010 111001 110100 111100 111011 10111 1000100 1110 11011 1011101 1010011 1001101 1111101 111111 101111 1010101 10101110 101111 111110 111100 1010110 1110100 101110 1011100 011011100 101001 101011 1110111 11011 1110100 111111 1010010 111111 111111 1010101 101101 1111101 1010111 11111 11111 1010011 111011 1011111 1111110 111011 111010 111011 10111 10101010 1011011 101101000 10111111 111101 111101 1110101 111110 1010111 1010101 1110101 101111 1010111 111100 1110011 111111110 1011110 101101 11111010 111111 1011100 111100 1010100 111100 11101010 100101 11001010 1111101 101011 111111 110011 1011101 111101 10011 1110001 1011101 1111001 11001111 1110111 101111 11011 101111 111011 1011101 1110110 111111 110010 111100 1011111 1010001 101111 1010110 11101100 1011000 1011110 10111 1011000 11111 1011010 110111 111010 1010110 1010110 101101 1111100 1010111 10011110 10100 1110111 101101 101011 1011111 100111100 101011 11101100 1011101 11110 111111 11101010 111101 1011101 1110111 111111 1011101 11001000 101011 1101110 1111101 1111110 1010100 111010 1010111 1100111 101111 100011 111100 1001110 1011111 11101010 11110 11100110 1110010 1111110 110100 101100 10101 11111 1011101 1111010 1000111 101110100 101110 1010101 10111 100111 111101 110101 101011 101111 100101 111111 111010 10111 111100 10110101 1110111 101101 1010101 111111 10111 11111110 101110 111110 101011 1010100 011101 101111 10111 111011 1110111 11111110 110111 1010011 11001 1010100 11111 101110 1011101 11111 11111 101011 10111 10110 110101 110111 1101100 1111101 11011 101110 1111010 110011 101111 10111 110001 111100 111100 1010100 1010100 111001 1011101 1010111 1000100 11110 1110111 11111110 101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 220
  • Average number of words per stanza: 42
  • Amount of lines: 224
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, meer, h, seer are repeated.

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