This is an analysis of the poem Historien Indtil Syndfloden that begins with:
Fortæl os snart et Eventyr igien!"
Saa lyder Efterskriften, Ven! i Brevet,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXaXaXbXXXXXaXXX XbXXbXcX XXXXacXXXXXbXXdX dXXXX eeXXXX XXXXXXXXabXXXXXfXXXX XgXfXgXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,8,16,5,6,20,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111100100 11010001110 0111100110 11011011101 1110101010 1110110111 110111 1110011111 0101111 11010011111 1110111110 111000 011110010 11100 1111100110 1111010111101 110011111 1111011100 1111100100 010110111 111100110101 110111110011 110100110111 10011110111 100111111 100111111 11001101110 110110110 111111111 1111011111 11011110111 11111001110 1111010111 1100 1101110111 11111111 11111011 111011100 11011101 1011011110 11011111 1100011011 1100111 011111101 1110011110 1111110101 110111100 101111100 110011111101 10111111 11111111001 110101111 11111111111 1011101101 0101111010 111111100 11101111110 111011110 11110110111 111100101 111011111 111111111 110111101 1101110011 101010111 11111100 1111101110 10 111111111 11111110 111001001 111011010 10111011 111011010 110011111 11010101111 111110 11001111110 11110111011 11000111111 11001011110 110101110 111101011 111111011 1111111101110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 472
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 85
- 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; at, og, en, det, af are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, og are repeated.
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- summary of Historien Indtil Syndfloden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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