This is an analysis of the poem Imperia that begins with:

Jeg er Imperia, Jordmassens Dronning,
urstærk som Kulden, der blunder i Bjergenes Skød,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXX XAX Xbb XbX XXa Xcc XXX XXX XAX XcX XXX XXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010010 111011011001 1110011111 10110110110 10111011000 11011111111 1011110110 1011011101011 11111100101 1010010011 1111011011011 10111111101 1011110110 101111011001 11011111101111 111011001 1011110111 10010101101 110101111 1011111011011 1101001111 1101001011 111011000010 111101111111 10010010010 10111011000 11011111111 10101010 101011011110 10111110111101 1001111110 1110010111 101001110011 111111110110 101011010110 101111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 132
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, d, af, som, og, er are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, de are repeated).

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  • summary of Imperia;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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