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

I den lyse Nat en Blomst der skinner
— i min aabne Dante jeg den finder....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa aa XX XX XX XX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111110 111101110 111100111010 1000110110 0110101100 11110100 111011110 1111111 10010101 11110110 101110100 1101011111 1011101100 11101100 1110101 11100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
  • Average number of words per stanza: 13
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; den is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word hendes at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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