This is an analysis of the poem Il Letto that begins with:

Den Jærnseng med Kniplingepuder
bred som den rolige Nyden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXbX XbXb XXaX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110000 1111010 11011000 11000110 11011100 1100111 1101111 11000110 1101101 110110110 110011110 11011000 1111001 111010000 1111100 110110110 11110100 11011000 111111 1111000 11100110 111101 10011000 1101111 110101 1001110 110011100 110010010 11010110 10110110 1111110 11010010 1111101 1111101 1111111 1101100 11111110 1101101 1100101 111101 1111001 1101010 110111 1111100 11011110 1100111 1010001 111111 1101101 11001110 11000011 111101100 11101110 111101 1111110 1111111 1111110 110011010 110110100 11111100 111011 111100 1111110 101101 1101011 110011110 1101110 111110000 111100010 0101111 10011000 11110010 11111011 110110 1111101 110011000
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, hvor, og, jeg, som are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, den, jeg, ved are repeated.

    The author used the same word hvor 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 gte is repeated).

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  • summary of Il Letto;
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