This is an analysis of the poem Caracalla that begins with:
Min Nat er søvnløs,
min Dag er Kval,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXb XXXX XcXX deXe eXXX XXXX XXbX XXXX XXfX dXXX XXXc XXXX XgXg XafX dXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101 1101 1101 11101 10100 111 101110 1101 111 11111 1111 110 1011 1111 11010 100 10111 1011 1000 1101 01110 1110 11110 1110 1011 11010 1101 1100 1011 1111 1111 111 111 1110 11111 11100 111 1111 1110 11010 11111 1100 1111 1111 11110 1110 1111 1111 111100 101 1111 1101 011 1110 0110 1101 11110 1101 01110 11011 11111 1111 11110 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 73
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 17 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; er, den, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words min, jeg are 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 du connects the lines.
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