This is an analysis of the poem Forvandlingerne that begins with:
Saa herligt, som Martyren i sit Blod,
Laae Havet i Aftenens Røde;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabX bXXXXX cXcXXX XXXXdX XXXXdb XbXbcX XXXXXX XXebbb XXXXdX XdXXXa eXXXXb XXXXXX XXXXff XXXXXf XdXXXX XXcXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101100111 11011001 1101001110 11011100 110101101 111100000 11011010011 1111010 110111100 11110100 111001101 11001101 1101001110 111101 11001011110 10011001 1100011101 10101011 1101111011 100110010 110111100 111110 10001111 110110110 1100111011 1111001 111101101 111111 111111011 1010111 111111111 1111011 11111111 11011 1101111011 1111111 11111111 11101111 110101101 111101 1101111111 11111101 11111100 110110 1110101 1110011 11110101 11111111 11100111 1101101 111101011 1111101 110111111 11100110 110110101 11010110 11011101 110110010 1111110 11111111 1101011 1111 1101011 100101 11101011 10111101 11110101 110010100 110100110 11110110 11111100 111111001 1100100101 1000011 111100111 0101010 11100111 11100101 111001010 11011000 11011110 110110110 110101100 11111 11011110 11011010 111111101 0100010 11101111 11011101 110101 111101 11101011 01011110 1111111 11100101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 210
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; i, den, jeg, og, hun, til, sig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, til, hun, og are repeated.
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- summary of Forvandlingerne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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