This is an analysis of the poem Midvinter that begins with:
Det er saa høj en Dag!
Den hele Luft er Sol og Frost,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abccaXXXX XbXbXXXXddX XXXX eeXXX bXXXaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,11,4,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 1110111 1110111 111 1101111 111101 11111110 11011100 110110 11011100 1111 1111010 1111 1101100 1111110 11011101 1111101 1111011 1111011 110100 011111010 1111111 1111111 11111101 11010111 1101111 11011111 1011111 11111 110111111 111110 1101111 1001101 11011111 111111111 1101100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 204
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, en, jeg, saa, dig, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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- summary of Midvinter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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