This is an analysis of the poem Eli Og Samuel that begins with:
Det var saa stille ved Midjenat,
Ei rørde sig Blad for Vinden,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXXbXc XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXc XXXXXXXX XXcXaaXX XXXXaaXX XXXXbXdd XXXdXXXX aXXXXXXX XXXXXecX XXeXXceX XXXXXXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111100 1111110 11000111 1011100 11011101 11011111 1111111 1111 11110110 11111000 11011111 1111110 11110111 1111111 1111111 1111 11101111 110111 1111100 100110 1101111 1101111 111101011 1111 1111111 1101111 11110111 11111 11110111 1111111 1111111 1111 1110111 111010 110101111 1101101 110111011 1011101001 111101111 1111 1111111 1101101 11111100 1111011 11110111 11111111 11011101 1111 11101101 11111100 110001101 1111000 11111101 11011010 11111101 1101 1111101 1101110 111101111 111111 110111101 11111111 111101101 1011 11011111 01111110 1110111 111111 111101001 11010111 1111101 1110 11111100 1011110 110101111 111101 11111101 1101011101 11111001 1101 11011100 1010101 110110111 110111 11111110 11111101 100111 1101 11011100 110001 1111111 1011101 110011011 110110100 1111111 1111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 76
- Amount of lines: 101
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i, han, og, st, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word det is repeated.
The author used the same words den, som at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines st is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word vind at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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More information about poems by Nicolaj Frederik Severin Grundtvig
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