This is an analysis of the poem Der Ligger En Sø Og Lyser that begins with:
Der ligger en Sø og lyser,
ud og ind sig vinder dens Spejl...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11011110 11111011 1101111 1011111 11111 11011110 111101101 111111 111101101 011111 110111111 111111 1111111 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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, s, der are repeated.
The author used the same word der at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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