This is an analysis of the poem Den Brustne Klokke that begins with:

Det er bittert og dog sødt, i Vinternætter vaagen
at sidde ved et Baal med blafrende Røg og Glød...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1010111110010 11111110111 11110111101 1111001101010 110111110110 110001100111 11001111010 1110101110111 11111111111 1100011111 1111111111 1101110111011 11011111111 11101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 172
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

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