This is an analysis of the poem Angst that begins with:
Der sidder paa min Læbe, hvor jeg stedes,
et Ord i Stodderdragt, et Ord i Pjalter,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa aaXX XXaa XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111110 11110011110 1111011101 111011010 111101111100 11110111110 101111100 10110011100 11010111010 110111011 1111101110 1111110010 1011111101 111001111 1100111 110110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ord, et, jeg, og, da are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words et, aldrig, da are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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