This is an analysis of the poem Landskab [paa De Gamle, Kendte Bakker Har Jeg Gaaet] that begins with:
Paa de gamle, kendte Bakker har jeg gaaet,
dér hvor fordum det store Slag har staaet,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXXXaXXXAbb XXXXcXXc ddXXXXXXXX XXXXeXeXXX XXXXXX XXeeXXaae X XXXXaXXXXX XAXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,14,8,10,10,6,9,1,10,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101110111 1011011111 11100010101 11011111101 1111111100 1110111111 101101110 11111101000 11101111110 1111110110 1101100110 1011011111 101101 1111111000 111001110010 1111111110 1111100110 111011100110 111010011110 1110110110 111100111010 1111010110 011010110 111111110 1111110 1111110111 1111110111 111011110110 111011111 1101011011 1111111011 111111011 11011101011 1111001011 11111110 1101011001 1111111111 1101111110 01101010000 011011101101 11101101111 111101110 111111110 01101101110 11111100110 111101101010 1110011010 11111111100 11101111100 11011101010 1010111000 11111011000 1111111111 110100101011 111111001 1111010110 1111011101010 1111100110 1000111010 1110100010 11011000 0111111110 0101111110 101010001010 111111100110 11111101000 1111110010 11111111 111001110 111111111 11110110110 10111100110 11111010110 111011111110 110111011110 111011100110 111010011110 111111100 1110111110 11111100 01110111111000
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 87
- 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; har, jeg, en, og, man, r, i, hans are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, da, og are repeated.
The author used the same word jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines m is repeated).
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More information about poems by Sophus Niels Christen Claussen
- Analysis of Landskab [for At Digte Mine Hyrdeviser Fuld Af Kyske Dyder]
- Analysis of Landskabet
- Analysis of Langs Havet
