This is an analysis of the poem Clara that begins with:
Naar jeg ser paa dig — hvor hvid du staar
under Skygger, der sig dystert hvælver,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX XXXX cdcX edeX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111101 101011101 10111101 11101011 101111101 100111110 11100011 111001000 11011011 110111110 11011111 1001010110 10011011 11111101 10111111111 111111111 011011111 11111011 11101111 1110111 111110000 111011111 111011111 11001101 11110111 11111111 11111111 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; og, er, mig, det, min, jeg, dig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, da are repeated.
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- summary of Clara;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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