This is an analysis of the poem Ellekongen that begins with:
Hvo rider saa seent giennem Skoven grøn?
Det er en Fader alt med sin Søn....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aaXX bbXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110101 101101111 110101111 111101111 1101101100 110001101 110001111 111010101 10110111 11011111 110101101 11001011 1101101110 110001101 110111111101 11010111 11101111 1111111 1111101 1101101111 11011011011 1001111 111111111 1101111 110111101 101011011011 1101101111 11000111 1101011011 1101101111 110111111 10111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; min, d, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, min are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n, k, d are repeated).
The poet repeated the same word d at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Ellekongen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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