This is an analysis of the poem En Tynd Mand that begins with:

Udi et Land, udi et Stræde,
Som meest udmærker sig ved Dynd,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXa XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX XXXa XcXc XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011 1110111 1101111 1111101 11111010 1110010 10111110 11010111 11101000 10111100 11100110 10110111 111100110 10111101 111101110 11111111 1001111 1111001 111111 1110110 11111001 1100100 11011011 1110101 110001010 11010111 11111110 1101111 1100011 1110100 1110100 111010 10111101 1111111 111111 11110111 1111010 11010111 1101111 10011111 11100111 1111111 1111100 101111 11101110 11001101 11110111 11110111 11110101 11001101 1011111 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 123
  • Average number of words per stanza: 25
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • 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; han, en, de are repeated.

    The author used the same words hans, han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of En Tynd Mand;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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