This is an analysis of the poem Hranes Elskovskvad that begins with:

Før smelted mig hver Foraarsbæk,
Som risled bag sin Brombærhæk...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXaX XXaXXXX XXXXbXb XXXXXXX XXXXXXX cXXdcdc XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101110 110111 11110 1101111 11011 10111111 110001 11111111 111011 111010 1111011 1101110 1101011 1101110 11011101 11110111 1100100 11001101 1101110 1101100 1111010 101111 111111 11110 101111 1111000 11110100 1101110 111111 110111111 111101 1100011 1111100 1111011 11011 11011101 111111 11100 111111 1111 11101101 11011 110110 1101011 11111 1100101 1111111 11111111 1110 111111 1011111 1111110 1100111 1000100 1111101 1101110 1011101 1111111100 110101 1001110 01111 110110 110111 1100101 1101110 11111 111111111 11111 1111101 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 196
  • Average number of words per stanza: 40
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; hvor, der, jeg, den are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nu is repeated.

    The author used the same word f 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 k is repeated).

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  • summary of Hranes Elskovskvad;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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