This is an analysis of the poem Afrika that begins with:
En Skat! En sielden Skat! — I Verden ingen
Saa stor. — Udi en Hule. Hvor? — I Asien!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXabbXXcddXXXXXXXXXXXXedX X XfX fXX XXX Xag Xga gXg XXX XXX XXXX X XcXXbXXXfXXXXXXXXXXgXbXXfXXXXXXaXXXeXXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,1,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,4,1,40,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111010 1110111110 111101100 110101111 10111010 1100010001 0111110111 11010011 101011 110001111 1011111101 110110101 1010111101 1111000111 111111110 01111101 11111100 1111101000 110001101 10001111 110111111 1101110000 1111111 1110111110 11101111 11111011111 111110111 11101101101011111111111 101010110 11000111110 11110101 11011101110 111010101 111011110 111010101 1100010110 1101010101 111111100 1101010111 110101110 100110101 10010101010 110101111 11011101110 1100001101 111111010 1101010110 111000111 111110101 11011111010 110111011 101111101 01010101101 11100011010 1101110111 11011101110 1101010 11011011 1110101 100101100 110111111 111110111 11011111 1101001011 0101001101 1001110101 11011111100 1110110100 1111001001 10111011 10010111 100111110 1101111001 11110010 1110010011 100111100 10101100110 11111111 111001111 11101111 111110111 011101100 111101110 11011111 111010100 11101001 1111011010 111011110 1110110 11011110 111001110 111011101 11011111111 1101101000 111101011 1101001011 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; en, i, den, paa, d, din are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, en, min, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lampe is repeated).
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- summary of Afrika;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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