Til Viola by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Til Viola that begins with:

De tusind smaa Savn i Violernes Bryst
har opfyldt mit Hjerte med kongelig Lyst....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XXXX XXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101111001 110111111001 01011001011 01111011011 110111101 111111001 10111011110 1101111001 010111011 1011011011 111011011 1101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, smaa, tusind, hans are repeated.

    The author used the same word de 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 st is repeated).

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

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