This is an analysis of the poem Juletanker that begins with:
Midt i Natten, midt i Vinters Hjerte,
Fødtes den, som bar en Verdens Smerte...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaX XXXXXX XabXXX XXaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XacXXc XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX XXXXXX bXdXXd XXXXXX aXXaab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 11111101 1101101 110111000 111100110 11001101 1111101 1111100 11100100 111011000 11111010 10101111 1110111010 11111010 11101011 10101110 11110110 11110100 11101111 11111111 111110110 11111110 10101110 11000101 10111011 1010110 1001100 100111111 100001100 111001101 10100101 11110010 11100011 1000101000 01100100 1010011 1011110 11111 1011010 111111 1101111 11101100 1111111 1011110 111111110 11001111 11001011 100010100 101001110 101011110 1111111 1110111 1011001 1011101 101011101 111010111 111010101 101011101 101001101 11110101 111111110 111001100 1011101 111011001 1111101 1100111 111101101 111011110 11111101 101011010 1111111010 10011101 1111001110 111001110 111011101 10111010 11010010 011000111 10111101 10111111 11101101 111110101 110010111 111000111 11110011 111100010 10110010 101110111 1011011 111100111 111011100 1011111110 111010101 111110110 1111000 110010100 1110011010 111110100 111011100 111101010 101110010 1111101011
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 102
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, hans, er, end, naar, da, ej are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, end, naar, kan are repeated.
The author used the same word hvi 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 de, nde, ngte, mme, nker, samle, re are repeated).
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- summary of Juletanker;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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