Poem Analysis of Ude Og Hjemme by Holger Drachmann for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Ude Og Hjemme that begins with:

Ude var der saa streng en Dyst,
Uvejret tog sine Tag med Skoven,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XaXXXXXX XXXXbXbX XXXXXXXX aXXXcXcX bXXXXXXX XXXXXdbd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111111 100111110 10111111 11010110 1111111 11110011 10111101 11111100 1111111 10001011 1111111 1111011 1101100 11100101010 1111011100 1101001100 1111101 101011010 110100101 111010100 1111101 1000110110 1001011111 110011110 11111001 10100001 1101100011 1101111 111110 10101110 111110010 1100010 11111001 111111 1111010010 1111111 1100101 1011100 11110111 1110111 111111 111101110 1111000 111011100 111110 11100111000 11101111100 1111100 111101 11111101 111111001 11101 1111101111 111010101 11111111 11111111
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
Average number of words per stanza: 51
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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; der, og, blev, jeg are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, og are repeated.

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Ude Og Hjemme by Holger Drachmann: poem analysis

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