This is an analysis of the poem Præludium that begins with:
Sig nærmer Tiden, da jeg maa væk,
Jeg hører Vinterens Stemme;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX aXaX XbXb cXcX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101111 111001 110101011 1101001 1111110 111100 11011111 11000110 11101101 111011 111111 11111 1111110 1101110 1101111111 1100110 111111 100101 11111111 110101 11001111 1111010 11010110 111011110 11110111 111101 1111011 011001 11111111 110011 111111110 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg is repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase maaskee connects the lines.
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- summary of Præludium;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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