This is an analysis of the poem Trende Nætter that begins with:

Den förste Nat var det Stierneblaae
Foruden Skye,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XabX cXXX XcXX XXXX dXdX XXXX XXXe Xfef XfXX dXdX XXXX XXXX XXXX XaXb XXXg XXXX XXXX XfXf cXXX XXXX gdXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110 1001 10100101 11101 11101010 1101 1111111100 11011 110100111 0100 1111001111 1111 11110101 1001 111001010 11011 111100 1101 110100101 1101 11011111 1111 110101101 1101 11011011 1101 10001010 1101 1001001100 11001 11101010 1101 10010011010 1111 11011101 10111 11110011 1111 11011011 11010 1101111 1110 1110101 111 111100100 11101 111101001 1101 111110111 1100 1101111 1110 01010101 11101 010101111 11001 111101101 1111 111111101 10110 110111101 11001 1100101101 11 1111110 110 1000101011 1100 1101111 110 01101100 1101 1101100011 1111 11010101010011 0101 1101010101110 1101 11111111101 1101 1111111001 1111 1101011001 1101 11111101 1101 1111111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 21
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; saa, den, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    The author used the same words der, imorgen, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Trende Nætter;
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