This is an analysis of the poem Eleonora Duse that begins with:

Hun har det Blik, som giver Hjertet Hvile,
og dette Smil — l'amor cosi gentile -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaa XXXXX XXX XX XXXXX XXb XXX aXb X XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,5,3,2,5,3,3,3,1,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111110101 111101011 111101011 1111111001 11111101 1111111001 11110111 11111011 1111111110 1100011110 11101111111 111111110 11111111 1011001110 1110001111000 11011 111000 100111110 110111011 1101111000 1101010111 11010111000 111110100 11111110 110001011 100111100 111110111 1111011010 1111110010 1101110111 1001110111 0101000101 110111001 11011101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; en, jeg, d, den are repeated.

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

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