This is an analysis of the poem Eventyret; Det Underfulde that begins with:

Det Mythiske Naturens Kraft forvandler
Til Menneske; men Eventyret handler...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXa XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101001100 11011000100 11011101100 11001111110 110110011 1100010101 111011110 1100110110 1101001110 1110101100 111100110 11000111100 11101101 11111111 10011110110 100111010 11010101010 11011111000 1011111101 1101111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; til, naar are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word naar is repeated.

    The author used the same words det, 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 rdes is repeated).

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

  • summary of Eventyret; Det Underfulde;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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