This is an analysis of the poem Hedelærkens Velkommenhjem Til Nattergalen that begins with:
Længe har jeg savnet, o Broderlil! din Sang:
Hvor har Du været den Vinter mørk og lang?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXXX XbXXXXaa XXcXXadd XXXXXXbb XXcXXXXX XXXXXXXX eeXXXXXX XbXaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110011 1101110111 11111111101 10111011001 101110110111 10001101001 111111101 100101101 110111100 10111101 1011100111 100101111 10001110111 101010111 1010111111 1101110111 1101110011 111001011111 10010110101 100110110100 1110111111 1011111111 11101011 111101101100 101111100101 11001110001 111110111 101000111 1011010011 11011101 1001011001 11110101 1011111101 1011110111 110010111 111110001 111110101 101101 1010111111 101010110111 10101011110 10110110111 1101110111 1001011101 100111011 1011110011 101011101 1011100111 1011101111 1111100111 110110111101 10111011101 101101101 11111001011 101011011 111111111 11111111 11101001001011 1011110010 0011111101 111111110 111111100 11101011001 11101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 64
- 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; har, og, mig, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hvor is repeated.
The author used the same words hvor, var 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 rk, d, e are repeated).
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