This is an analysis of the poem Et Skuespil that begins with:

Vor Jord en Skueplads man og med Rette kalder;
Thi heel dramatisk er enhver vor Levealder....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,8,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110111110 111000101100 1100011111 11101110111 11011111101 10111101101 111011111 01111110010 111101110011 11111111110 111101111 11011111011 11100111001 1010110111 1101011110010 1110111000 11101111010 1100101111010 1111001101 111111110101 110111011 1101111001 1011001111011 110110101111 1110100101 110111110111 1110101011 1110111111 1101011011100 10110111110 10011111100 1101100101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 245
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; en, du, ej, den are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word ifald 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 der, ngsel are repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Et Skuespil;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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