This is an analysis of the poem Decembernat that begins with:
Jeg skimter gennem Mørket Tag ved Tag,
og under Vinternattens lave Himmel...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XXXXX bcdbd XXXXX XcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101111 1101000110 111111000 1111111 1101100010 11111111 11110011111 11110111110 111100100 1111110010 1111010101 1101111110 111111 11111011 11010011 111111101 1100101100 110111111 111111111 11110011 110101101 111110110 110111100 1101111101 111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 189
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; som 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.
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