This is an analysis of the poem Til Solen that begins with:
O Du, som ruller højt paa Himlens Bue:
Et Flammeskjold! — hvorfra, o Sol, din Lue?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXbXX XXXXXXXX XXXaXXXX aXbXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011011101 1100101111 1011101 1100101110 10101001000 010111100 110111010 111110 101101110 11011101100 111111011 10010101100 101111110 110101111 1011111 0110011 110100100 11010101100 1101011111 110001100 010111011 1101100111 11010101 1101011 11111100100 111111100 110000101 11011101100 101101010 110111100 11101100 1110100 11111111 10111011 1001111001 1101101010 1100111010 10101111 10111101 100101 1000100010 110111110 10011101 111101010 1101001110 111111101 111010110 1111110
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 53
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; og is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words naar, og are repeated.
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- summary of Til Solen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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