This is an analysis of the poem En Prolog Til „frøken Julie&Quot; that begins with:

Meget begriber de Danske, dog langsomt begriber vi alle.
Havde jeg vidst det i Tide, var jeg ej den, som jeg er....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXXaXXXXXXXXXaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101000111010011 1111111111110 101011101010111 1111111111111 111000110111010 1011110110011 110101011111010 101100101011001 11010111110 111011110111 10011011010110 11011111011 1110011111001 1001100101101 11110110110001 111100011011010 10110101011011 11111100111 1101111111010 110011101101 10110101011011 110001 101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
  • Average number of words per stanza: 113
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, han, vi, jeg, med, os are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word giv is repeated.

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  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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