En Afsides Plads Uden For Byen by Adam Oehlenschläger: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem En Afsides Plads Uden For Byen that begins with:

Hvad er en Eed? En Løkke, som jeg kaster
Om Halsen paa mig, mens den anden Ende...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccXXXdXXXXeXXXXXfXXXXXbXgXhbXiXXXXXaXXXjaXXXXXXXXXXeXXXXhXXadX XXkkXXXXiXXb eX Xh ej Xj ea XX eX Xb edd XXX eg XXb eXh XX eXX Xh ej XX ef XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,12,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,3,3,2,3,3,2,3,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011111110 1101111101 111001111 111111111 111111001 111011101 1100111011010 110011111 1011110 11010101110 111011111 111000111 01100100110 1101111101 1010110110 01110110 111000100 011101010 11011100100 11111110 1011110111 1101010100 0110111111 10011001 11100101 1111010110 111111001 1110001110 111110111 11110111 1101111 011111 1101110111 1111101000 10001001010 11111111 1010001011 1111101110 11100011 11111000 1111010001 01100100 101110110 1011100110 0111000111 111111110111110111111101101 110101011111 1101101010110 11111110 111111001 10011110 1111011101 110100011 110001101 11110101110 1101011100 1101011100 111110110 101010010 011111010 100100101 11111101010 11101010 1111111111111011111101111011011111100110111110101101100101111110011 101 101110 101101 11111 100111 010101 101111 1101 10101 11100 11101 11101 010 1001001110 10 110101111 010 11111111101 10 1101100100 010 1101011000 10 1111011101 010 111110111 10 110101111 010 1011101101 101111111 10 1110011100 1111110100 010 1010111101 10 1101111001 11011011 010 11 11011111 10 1100 010 11001111011 110111 10 111 010 110111111 10 111101111 010 111101111 10 110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 121
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6

  • 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; du, er, i, han, f, r are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, at, hvis, jeg are repeated.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of En Afsides Plads Uden For Byen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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