This is an analysis of the poem Den Hemmelige Røst that begins with:

Skiøn Ingerlil gaaer om alene,
Beskygt af Borgelundens Grene,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXaX XbcXc ddaXX aXXXd ddXXX XXXXX XXXXX bbXbX ddXdX XXXXX XXcXc XdXXX XXXXX XeXXX XXXdX dXXXX XXXXX XXeXX XXXXX XXXXd XXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101 10110001 111111 1101111 111111 11111101 11011111 1111101 11110001 11010111 11011010 11011110 10001111 11111010 1101111 110110010 110111000 1011100 110100110 11111010 101101010 11110010 1101101 011101110 11111101 111011 1111111 10110111 10010001 1101011 11010101 11110010 11011101 1101010 1011011 11011101 1101111 1101111 1101011 1100111 01011110 11010110 11011101 1101110 11010101 111111010 110101100 1100111 110111010 1101111 11111101 10011010 1101101 1101111 1111111 11011101 11111010 1111111 111100010 1101001 11110101 1001111 110110 111110 1101101 11011110 1111111 11010111 10110010 1111101 110101100 10010110 111111 110101110 11010110 111111010 11011100 1101100 11101010 11001111 11111111 11011111 1111111 1101111 11010111 11111010 111101010 101101 11111110 1111000 111101110 11111010 1101110 11110100 111011 11110111 011011 11011101 11011111 11011010 1101011 11010010 1101111 10011101 1111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • 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 punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; den, en, i, og, du, hun, r are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words da, og, en, hun are repeated.

    The author used the same word 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 re is repeated).

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  • summary of Den Hemmelige Røst;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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