This is an analysis of the poem Drømt En Morgenstund that begins with:

Der vaagned en Drøm en Morgenstund
om Sheherezades Fabler, -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabaa XXbbXX XXXXX XXXX XbXXXX XbXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXX baXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,5,4,6,4,8,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111100 11000010 1101111 11000100 110111 1100001 1111100 011100 11011110 1101110 11011 1101111 10111110 110110 11111 11100 111100 010101 101110 011011 010100 110110 11111010 110011 1010110 1110010 11101001 111111 1101110 111100 11011010 111111 11010110 11010110 110111 111111 11111 11011111 11111 110111 110101 110110 11111 111100 11100 11110 110101 1111000 111100 11110100 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; og is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, og, de are repeated.

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