This is an analysis of the poem Som Foraars-Solen Mild Og Blid that begins with:
Som Foraars-Solen mild og blid,
Vor Trøster-Mand fra Arilds-Tid,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX aXXaX XaXXX XXXbX cXXXX XXXaX XcXaX XXaXX XXXbX aXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 1111101 1111111 011011 111101 11001011 0111110 0111101 1111101 111101 11011011 11011111 11111111 11001101 1111010 10111101 1111010 11011110 101111 111101 11111101 10001101 1111101 1011110 1111010 1111111 1101111 1111100 1111101 1111010 11110001 1111111 1101111 111111 1111010 11011101 1101011 1001101 1101110 1111010 1001100 11011100 1101111 11011101 1111010 1110101 1101100 11011101 11111001 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 54
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; du, gt, sig, da are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word du is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gt, r, dt, st are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words vendte, vender at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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