This is an analysis of the poem Tidens Perspektiv that begins with:

I den store snevre Stad
Gik en Yngling lidet glad,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbccXX XdXXXXXXXX XXaXXaaaXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXXbbXdXX bXXaXbXXXX XXbbaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111 1110101 1001101 110111 1110111 111011 1110111 111011 1110111 111100 1001011 111101 1011100 1111110 11111 1011110 111101 1000111 1010110 1111101 1011101 1001111 1110101 1011000 1110111 1110101 1011101 1010111 101101 101001 111101 1110101 11011 1010101 1110100 100100 1000101 1100110 111010 1111100 100111 11111 111101 101111 110111 1010100 111011 11011 111010 1010100 1010111 1100100 1110101 101111 1101101 11011 100100 11101 1001111 1110100 1001101 111111 100110 1111101 1110001 1011101 111111 11111 11111 1110001 111111 100111 1001101 11011 111101111 101111 11111 1011000 1011101 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 265
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d is repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rk, d, r are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Tidens Perspektiv;
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  • history of its creation;
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