This is an analysis of the poem Augustinus that begins with:

Hvo vandrer dybt i mørken Skov,
Hvor ellers Ulven kun sit Rov...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXbXXXbX XXXXXXXccX XXXXXXXXdX XXeXXXXbXX XXXXXXXeXX XXXXffXXXe XXaaXcXXXX bXXXbXeXXX XXXXebXXXX bbXdcXXffX XbXXXXXfXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111 11010111 11111010 111100 11011101 101011 11101000 11010111 111111 11111010 11110010 111111 11111 11000111 1101111 1101111 10110111 1011011 11010111 1111011111 1101010 1111011 11011101 11011111 11110110 11010111 1111101 1110100 11001010 11100001 11010101 11000100 110101010 1111010 1111101 11011111 11010110 11110111 11011101 1101110 1101111 111011 1111110 11111010 1111100 1111100 11011110 1011111 1111011 11010100 10010111 111111 11111110 10111110 1100011111 1111111 101011110 11001101 1111001 11001110 11111101 10100001 10011110 100101010 1111101 1111110 10111101 11101111 11010100 01010011 111101 11110011 1100110 11111111 1110001 1101101 1111101 1110101 1100011 11111010 11111101 1111100 111101100 110111000 1111101 111111 111110 11111100 11110111 11110110 1101111 1111101 1111101 1101111 1110111 0100111 111101100 10011100 1110111 110001100 1010001 1011101 110110100 1101110 1100111 11011101 1111110 1111101 10110111 1111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, med, som, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, i, naar, med are repeated.

    The author used the same word og 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 nder, n, vet are repeated).

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

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