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

Høit fra Træets grønne Top
Straaler Juleglandsen;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXbbXX XXcXXXcc XXXXXXXX dXXXXXXX eXeXXXXX XXXXXXXX XdXXcXXX XXXXffXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 101000 1001101 110010 1111111 111110 11110 101110 11111 11011 11111 11100 1111111 1010111 101010 10110 1011111 10101 1011101 1111 101101 111111 10111 11101 1011101 11111 1010010 11100 1011111 1101101 11110 11110 11111 101110 0011011 0111 1110101 111110 11011 10011 11001 11101 111100 1011 1100111 1000101 10111 10111 1101111 10101 1111000 10111 11111 1111101 1111 1111 1101101 11111 100110 11110 101111 1101101 10101 1011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; du, hun, kan 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 re is repeated).

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  • summary of Juletræet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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