Tidligt Foraar by Viggo Stuckenberg: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Tidligt Foraar that begins with:

Nu hvirvler Skovens Bronzeløv
og Hasselhegnets Rakkelstøv...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XX aaXXbX XXXXXX cXXXbX XXXXXX XXcddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010 1100010 111100 10111101 1001111 1101010 1101011 1101011 1011010 11011011 101111111 1101110 11111 1101101 110100 11011111 1010101 110111 1111111 1101111 111101 11110101 11111101 110111 1011100 10001100 111100 1011110 11011111 11011 11010111 1101111 101011 1111101 11011101 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • 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; og is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nu, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines v, jt are repeated).

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  • summary of Tidligt Foraar;
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  • history of its creation;
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