Hver Morgen, Naar Jeg Vaagner by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Hver Morgen, Naar Jeg Vaagner that begins with:

Jeg skotter til min Rude,
hver Morgen naar jeg vaagner,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXX aXXaXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1101110 111011 111110 10011 110111 11111 1101110 11011 1101110 111001 110111 111111 11011 11110 1101110 11111 111010 1111 110101 0100110 0101010 1101110 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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; de, jeg, du are repeated.

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

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

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

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