This is an analysis of the poem Nytaarsønsker that begins with:
Det er en gammel skik — og megen skjøn tillige -
Til hver, man seer den første Januar. at sige:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaaXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXbXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 41,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101110110 1111111011 110100110111 11011010101111 1100001011 110010000110 11110011111 100011111 11111111 1111101111 1111111110 11100111110 111110101000 1110011011000 100100111 010111001 01101101110 1100111010110 10111001011 11111011100 10010001111 1010110110 1111111100 1111111111 1100110110 1101001011 110011010111 11111001 111110000 1100101111 11101110010 1111001110010 11101011110 1111111111110 1110111111 1001110111 11111110101 11010101001 111100111 111011111 0111011011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1835
- Average number of words per stanza: 345
- Amount of lines: 41
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mange, at, og, det, som are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word de is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nsker is repeated).
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