This is an analysis of the poem Vinter that begins with:
Hvor Vejen løber for Bakkens Fod,
der ligger et lident frysende Kær...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaXaX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bcXcXX DbXX DdXXd XXXX XXXXX XXXX XbXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,4,5,4,5,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 110110101 1110101 11010111 110101 11111 11010011 1111101 1101010 11010111 110110 11111 1100111011 01011111 11101110 11111101 1110110 11011 111101111 01011011011 11011010 1101101101 111010110 1111101 110110110 1011011011 11101010 11010101 110110 11101 111100 1100110111 111111111 1111111 111100 1111011010 111111101 1111110110 1101111110 10111 1001111 111110111 11011111 10111 110111111 11101101 1101011111 111110111 1011 111101110110 110101101 111101111110 1111 11111 110111010 1111010001 110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, i, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, det, hvor are repeated.
The author used the same words ved, det 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 r is repeated).
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- summary of Vinter;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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