This is an analysis of the poem Poesiens Sandhed that begins with:

I braute med jer Poesie! Mon Legen
For voxne Børn er stærk, som Oldtidsegen?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXXX XXXX XbXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111110 1110111000 11111100 111110111 100101100 11000111011 110111111 1100101110 1111101110 110010110 11100011110 1111011100 111111110 1011110010 11101111 1100010011 111111100 1111001000 111101111 100110110 11001011100 1101010100 111011101 110111101 11110011110 1101111110 110110111 1101010101 1110011101 110111111 101011101 110111011 10100111010 11000011100 111001011 110111100 1101011010 111110100 1011110111 110110001 1111111010 111100100 1101111110 1011001110 1111110111 110111110 111111101 11110111 1100111110 11110100 1101110101 0111011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • 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; han, den, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words han, den are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines gne, nker, re, nne are repeated).

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  • summary of Poesiens Sandhed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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