This is an analysis of the poem Frostnat that begins with:
Den kolde Natteluft i Huden stikker,
og Sneen knirker skarpt for hvert et Skridt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa XXXX bcXc XXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110011010 111011111 11010100010 100111001 111101111 011110100 01110101 11000111 1101111110 1101011 111011110 111111110 1111110010 110011101 110111111 111101101 1101010110 11111111 111110110 1101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- 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; de, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, en are repeated.
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