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

Beyond the Northern Lights, in regions haunted
Of twilight, where the world is glacier planted,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbcXcXacacdc X efefaaccdacacddXX X ggffeXhhccc X iiihihijjjhXXiihhkk j iigggllgaaccgg j ccaaaammbbnnaacggcggaabhbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,1,17,1,11,1,19,1,14,1,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 01010101010 01110101010 1111000101 0101011001 1101000101 01010101001 11010100001 1101010101 0101010111 1011011101 0101110101 1101010101 01010110101 01010000101 10011001101 1 11110101010 1101010001 01010101010 0101110111 110101001101 01111000101 1001001111 1101001 1100010 010101 1101001 1101111101 0101000101 0101010 1101011101 1001011110 1101010 1 11110101 10010001 11010101 11010101 11110111 1111010 11111101 01110101 11011001 10110011 1001110001 1 10111111010 01110101110 10111111110 010101 11110101010 110111 10010001010 111101 1010101 00100111 101100 11101000 01101000 10000110 01101010 1110111 1011101 0010100 0110101 1 10111101110 01110101010 0111110101 1100101 10100111 111010 0011010 0101011001 1101001101 0111100101 1101110101 1001011100 1101010101 11010010101 1 1101111001 0111001 11010010111 11001 100110101100 111010 0110000111 111101 1001010101 110101 01110111001 1100101 1101010101 111101 1001100101 111001100111 0101001 11010111101 1101 1101110101 11001 011101 1101110111 0110100101 11110100011 1101100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 352
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 117
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, or, his, her are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Jotunheim;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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