This is an analysis of the poem Jakobs Nattekamp that begins with:
Som Ørnen sidder paa høien Hald,
Og fylder med Rov sin Rede,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa aXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXcX XXXX XXXd XXXX XXaX XXeX XXeX XXXX XXXX XXXX cfbf XXdX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110111 1101111 11010111 111111 110101101 110110 110101101 10011100 11111100 1111010 110101111 1011110 11110111 1111111 101101110 1111110 11010111 1111011 11101101 1111101 110101111 1111110 111111 0110110 110101101 1111010 111101111 1101111 10011100 11011101 1111111 1111101 01111110 10011100 11111101 10011110 111101101 11111 11101101 11111111 11111100 1111110 11011111 11011100 111101100 111111 1111101 1000111 11101111 111101 11111011 110101 111101101 11001100 1011110 11011010 110101110 1101111 111101101 1111100 1101101001 110111 1101011 111101 11101101 11001000 1111111 111010 111101100 111111 1110111 111111 11101101 1110101 11101111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 91
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ham, han, i, og are repeated.
The author used the same words som, da, saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Jakobs Nattekamp;
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- history of its creation;
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