This is an analysis of the poem Scherzo that begins with:
Jeg er Fanden selv, der kommer
til din triste Seng om Natten...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX XaXX aXXX aXX X XXXX XXXX XX XaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,4,4,3,1,4,4,2,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10101110 1111110 111111 1111110 1101110 111010 11110 0110010 1011110 11010 111110 1110111 11111010 10101110 1111000 11101100 0110010 11010 11101110 1011000 1010010 1101010 111110 100111 101111 10101110 1101110 111111 1111110 101011 111011 1101100 1111 10101110 1111100 1110110 11100110 10101111 1110101 111111110 111110 101101 101111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word hvis at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word fanden at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Scherzo;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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