This is an analysis of the poem Prolog that begins with:
Du Nordens mørke Møe, Melancholia!
Som sidder hisset paa det tykke Bundt...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXbXbXXXXXXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010111000 110101111 11011011 110111111 110001110 10101111 011111000 11110010 11110011 10111111 1110111100 11100110 11111111 110111110 1101110110 111001100 1111011101 1111101110 1111100110 111100100 010011111 110101110100 1101110100 110110100 1101111110 1101001000 111110100 11010101 10110111 1101111100 11001111 11011111001 110101011 11111101 1101100101 1111010111 110111100 1101111100 11001101 111111 11011011 1111011010 1110011110 11111111 0101100111 1111001100 111111000 100111111 111111101 111100 110011111 1111111111 110001011 110110010 110100111 101111111 111111101 11011101 11110110 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2286
- Average number of words per stanza: 433
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; af, og, til, din, for, det are repeated.
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- summary of Prolog;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Adam Oehlenschläger
- Analysis of Prologer
- Analysis of Propertii Første Bogs Tredie Elegie
- Analysis of Reisen Fra Nyborg Til Svendborg
