This is an analysis of the poem Yduns Frelse that begins with:

Som Vinden blæser hen den lette Sky,
Saa svinder hver Bedrift i Evigheden....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXX XXbXXXX bXbXXXX XXcXXXX XdXXXXa eXeXXXX XXbXdXX XXXXXdd fXXXXXX XXXXXXX fXfXXXX gXXbXXX XXaXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XhgXhXd fXdXXXX XXXXXXX bdXXXXX XXXXiXX XXXXXXd bXXXXXf XXXXXXX XXXjXXX XXXbbXX XXcXXXX fXbhXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011111 11011011000 111110111 1101010110 111110110 101111010 1100110111 0111011100 1111111101 1000010101 1111111 101110111 11111111 010111101 1101011101 101011001 110111111 111110101 11101111 11011111 010110101 10101110110 111111010 11101111 111010111 11010111 1111010101 11111110 1111010101 1101111110 1101111 11110111010 1101111110 11001111 10111111 110111011 1111111000 110101011 1101011101 1101110011 11011111000 1101010100 1101010101 1101010101 111010111 1111000110 1100110010 1111110110 11011101100 1101111100 1101010111 110110101 1101001101 1111111 1111101110 110101110 11111011 111111110 11011111 111010110 1001111000 1010111110 1110111000 011011101 1111111 110111111 1101011101 11111011 111111110 11111110 11011111 11010111 110011111 1111100111 111111011 1101111111 1111111 1101111101 111111101 1101111100 111001111 11111111 1111111110 1101111010 110001111 111001111 1111011 111111 1101010101 01111101 11111101 11011110 11110011 101111100 1101110111 100110011 111101101 111111 1101110111 111011011 111110101 110110011 110110101 111111100 10110011 11101101 101111111 11101011 1111101101 10110111 1101111 110101101 11111110 111001011 1111011100 110101111 101111011 11000111111 11111111 100101100 1100111010 11011011 1111101010 1101010110 1001010101 1111110010 1100111101 111011101 1111011010 11011111 11111101 110011111 1111011 101101110 110111011 11011111 110011101 101110001 101010110 111101100 1101111101 1101111110 1001110 101110110 110111010 110111110 11001101100 11010111 1101111101 11111101 110111110 1111011111 1101011110 11001100 111111001 11101010 110011010 01111101 1111011101 100111110 1001011010 11001101 01101000 110101111 1111111 100111101 1101110110 110101101 11101111 10110111100 0101010101 11001001010 111010110 011111111 11110101110 11011001 1111110110 111101111 110111101 11011111 11001101010 10010111010 11110111 111010100 1111111 11101011 1101011 1010110110 11011101 1100110101 11011100010 111001001 11010011010 10110111110 111111010 110101011 11111101 11111111000 111011101 111100110 11110101110 11011011110 110111110 111001111 1111110100 0101111101 1100110111 111111111 101111101 10011110 111011101 11110010100 111011111 101011111 11111101 1101011111 11111111 111011100 111111110 110111111 11011111 1101011010 1110011110 111011110 1101011100 10111011110 11111111 111101010 11011111110 11001111010 1100111010 11111101 1111110101 111110011 111010111 11101011 11110111110 010110110 1111000111 1100110111 110111001 11110110 1111010011 110111101 1111111010 010101011 111011101 1101110111 100111111 111101101 111101011110 11010111010 111111001 1101011100 110110111 111101111 1101110110 111011101 1011101101 1111111101 110110111 11101101 11111101 1101101101 11011010 11111110 1101011101 1111101 11011110 110111110 11101101 110101111 1111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 39
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 273
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 273
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, lge, som, vil, og, med, fter, han, den, i, ingen, sin, kke are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, lge, rke, kke, re, rte, fter, ie, vet, dder, gler, rmed, kker are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase der connects the lines.

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  • summary of Yduns Frelse;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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