This is an analysis of the poem Alle Nordens Fugle that begins with:

Midt i Nordens stormomsuste Hjørne
rejser sig det solindspundne Træ,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXX XXXXX XXXX XXX XXXX XXX XXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,3,4,3,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101001 10111001 11110101 11111100 1101110 101110101 111110011 11111111 101110100 10110110 1011011 1111101 11010100 1111111 11110101 11111101 11001101 11111011 101 111110001 10101111 1101 11111101 111111 11111010 11101111 10111101 11101111 101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 29
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; re, gt, tro, paa are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, gt, je are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word gt at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Alle Nordens Fugle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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