This is an analysis of the poem Midnat that begins with:

Blegt glimte Stjernerne i mørke Nat,
Den røde Maane ned bag Højen synker;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXXbXXXXXXXcXcXXaXXXXXdeXXXXXX XfgXXXbXfXXXXXXeXXXXhXhX XXXXXXXXXXhX bXbXiXiXeXeXXXXjdXdXifXXefXfkXkXaXaafXXX XXeX leXecXcXgXgj XXXXXfcX XXXXfXXe XXXXaXXX eXeXXXXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXffXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXbXXXXjXXXXeXXXlXlXXXXXXXXXaXaXeXeXXXXX XXXXXXXXXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,24,12,40,4,12,8,8,8,13,4,12,4,44,16,16,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 11111110 11011111 11110101010 0110111 1100111101 1001110111 110101111 111100101 11010101010 1100010101 11010001010 111101 11101111 1011110111 110110101 10101010 110101111 11111010 11111011 010101111 11010011 100110101 1101111001 0111011111 11011101 11111111 1111011001 110100011 110101111 01101010 11111110 111110101 1101111 111011101 11111010 1101111 1101111010 110111111 1011011010 110101110 1110110010 1101110101 1110111010 1110010110 110101111 1101010111 11101100 1101100111 11011111 11110111 1110001101 111101101 1111110001 111101100 11111101 11111111 1001111010 11111011 11111110 1101110111 11011011 110011101 101110100 11011111 1111111 110110100 01101011 1111110 11110111100 11100101 11111100 110111101 111011100 11101011111 11011110010 011010011 111101 1110111 1101111 1111111101 11011101 11011111 11111101 110111111 1101110110 111111 11101011 1111111 110110101 110101101 110110001 1101111 111010110 1101011100 1111001010 1101011101 1110111110 11111101 11010111010 11111010111 1010111 110101011 11010011 1011000111 1011011010 10111111 1111110010 11010101100 111110101 110011010 110111101 111101101 11110010 11111001 1111010110 1111111001 11011011 10010110100 110011101 010101111 111111010 11111111 110111110 0111111 01111100 11110111 111111011 1111011101 0111010100 110111100 11111111100 11011100 11101000110 0111111101 11011111110 110100111 11011111010 111101101 10111110 11011010 101111110 11011110 111011101 1101010101 1101110111 11011111 11010111 01011111 0101111001 111001110 10011111 1101011101 0111111100 1111110111 1010011000 1011110100 11010100 101111011 101111110 110111111 1101110001 1111110111 110011110 1111101 101100110 11110110 1010001111 1101110110 10111111 0101101010 11111111 11011101100 1111010110 110111110 0011011111 1001110 1011011101 111000100 1101111110 111101100 1001011100 01111100000 111101101 1011101010 11011011 1000110110 11100011 1101110010 01001010 0101001 101111101 11100101 111110110 1111011101 11011011 110100101 11111110 1111011110 1100011101 1111110011 1111110111 11110111110 111111100 11010111010 111110111 1111110101 1101011101 0111100101 111110111 110101001 1110110110 11111110 111110101 111101111 111111110 110111001 1111001111 111101110 1101100001 1111101 111111011 111110011 1101011101 1101011110 1111111 11110110 11101011 110111001 10011011 1111010110 1110111100 11011001000 111011100 111110001 010111101 101011110 11010101110 11110111010 100100110 111111110 111101110 110010100 1101001101 11111110 1101101 011010110 1101011000 11100100010 1101011101 11110111 1101011101 110101011 1100110101 111100110 1111110100 111010100 111111101 1111001101 110101011 100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 624
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, som, og, hvor, den, din, naar, hver, dit, anden, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, og, en, den, hvad, hans, her, hvor, du, det, naar are repeated.

    The author used the same word hvor at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Midnat;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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