This is an analysis of the poem Kahn that begins with:
Kiøbmanden.
Det troer jeg nok! en saadan Reise trætter....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabXcXX XXX XXXXXXdXX Xbb XdXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXe Xc XXXXX Xc XbXdXXXXXXaXXXfXXXXXXX XX XXXXX XX XXaX XX XXXe XX XXXXeXXfXXXXX Xb XXXX XXX XXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,3,9,3,9,4,6,2,5,2,22,2,5,2,4,2,4,2,13,2,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100 111111011 110111111111 11100111110 110100111 11110111011 1111111010 1001100011 1011110010 100 11101011 1111011111 100 10110 101110111 111111110 1101110110 101110110 11011011010 110001111 11101110 100 1 101100111 100 110111110 10111110 1111111100 10111101 111001110 111010101 101111111 0110 100 11111 1111101110 1110010010 100 11011101110 1111101010 1001100 1101101100 11111111 1001000 1 100 110110110 111011111 1101011011 1101111110 100 1 100 111110111 11010111000 10001110 11011111110 1110011110 1101010100 1110011110 111111101 0101011111 111011011 1111010111 11011101100 1101110110 110101001 111101110 11010111110 11111011 1101111001 111111100 111101101 111110110 100 111011101 100 11011111010 111111110 1101010111 111011110 100 11 100 1111111 101011010 111110110 100 1000 1001 11111 110111110 1111101111 100 110 100 1111101110 111111100 111110101 1111110111 1111111110 11111111010 111111111 111010111 111111110 1110001100 11101000 1111111100 100 111111111 100 1111011110 1011001100 11110011000 100 11010111000 111110101 100 1010011111 1011111100
- Amount of stanzas: 23
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 120
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, i, en, og, saa, paa, er are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines det, sammen are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Kahn;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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