This is an analysis of the poem Til En Ung Digter that begins with:

Hvi sørger du, at ikkun Faa
Med hellig-henrykt Taushed lytte,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,18,18,30,49,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101101 11010101 11111 1111111 011011 1111101 11000110 1101101 1101110 1101010100 1100011 1101101 111101 11100111101 1101011101 1000111000 11101011 110100010 110001100 1100110011 01010100 11011101000 111011111 1101011001 111111 1101110001 11010101 111111111 11111100010 11011100100 0110100 11110001 1101111 1111001101 1111001 1101110110 11101101 1111110000 1101101 111111111 1011001101 1101000110 1111100 111011101 111110001 1101111 11111111 1110001 1111101 1011111 11011001000 1111011111 1110100 10111101 1101011 1110010111 11011001 10111000 11001110 11010111010 1000101 0011010011 11111000 11100101 11011101 11111011 1111001 11110111 1011111 1111011111 1101110011 1101111 11110110 1111111 11111011 1110100 1111111 11111111 11111111 11110001 110111101 111111 1110101 1100110110 11110011101 110111101 111011110 110111110 1111111 111101100 1011110 110101001 11111100 11011101 111001 10111101 111111 1111101 1111111110 1100100 1111010 11011100 111010101 1110001 111101110 11101100 110111100 1001011 1101111101 11110001 111110100 1101001 11110100 110101010 1101100 111101001 110001010 11011001 11110001 11010100 1110010 1110110 1100101 11011100 11010111 110111101 111111110 10111011 1101110010 1011111101 1111101 1110100111 11111 110110101 1101101 11100001 1101010110 110010111 111101100 10110011011 1101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 969
  • Average number of words per stanza: 184
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, l, dig, i, som are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ber, nne, de, n are repeated).

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