This is an analysis of the poem Haandværket that begins with:
Der var en Tid, da hvert et Vand
kun spejled øde Skove,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XaXa XXbX XXXb XXcX bbXb XXXX XcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 11001 1101111 11111 11110101 11111 1111100 111101 111111 11011 1111101 1111 1111110 11110111 111111 11111 11110101 1101111 1111111 110101 11011111 111101 11111100 110111 11111111 11101 11011100 11101 11010101 110111 1111110 110111 10101101 101110 11110111 111110
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; hans, d, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Haandværket;
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- history of its creation;
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