This is an analysis of the poem Veien Spærret that begins with:

Min Tanke fløi som Falken ud,
Og Fantasien gav sin Vinge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXb XXXX XccX XXXX XXXX aXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1100111 111111 1111011 11010111 1111111 1111110 1100110 11111101 11100110 1101111 11111010 11111001 110111010 110011010 111111010 1111010 1111111 11100010 11011101 1101111 1111101 1101011 1101111 10101101 1101111 111011111 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 is 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 rret is repeated).

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