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

Ni blomstertavse Muser har besøgt mig
og duft-tilhvisket deres Himmelkløgt mig....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX XX XX XX XX bb XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110010111 1110010101 0101110100 11011111 011000101 111110011 010101111 1111111111 11110111 11011111 110110100 11111101 01011111110 011111101 011111111 110101011 100101000000 1100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, de are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word de 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 mig, de, stet are repeated).

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

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