This is an analysis of the poem Ingeborg Stuckenberg that begins with:

Til dine Øjnes Aandemusik
i Skumringstimen vi lytted sørgmodig....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXX X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,1,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111000 1100011010 111110010 11011101 0111101 11111100 1101110010 10111011001 11111101 1100110110 111110110 11101100 101101100 111110111 1101010 1100011111 1111000 1111011011 111101011 011111010 1111111 1111111 11101011 1100110001 111111101 1111111 110111011 11111010 11111111 0111010011 110011101 110011101 11111110 1111111100 110101010 11011101 1111101 111100100 0101101 11101111 110111101 011111110 1101001100 111101100 11101110 11110110110 11010011110 11000
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lge, ger, v are repeated).

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

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  • summary of Ingeborg Stuckenberg;
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