This is an analysis of the poem Til Apol [du Lange, Laurbærkrandste Dreng! ] that begins with:
Du lange, laurbærkrandste Dreng!
som altid Lyren har i Hænde,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXX bXcb cXXX daXX eXXX fXfX XXgX XXXX XXdX fXfX dXdX XXbX XdgX XXdX XXaX XXXX gXgX XXaa XXfX XXXX XXed XgXX XXeX XXXX dXdX XXXX fXfX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01101 11010111 1101111 11001101 1111001 1111111 111111010 11100100 11010110 10010101 1000111 11001110 11111001 11111110 1111001 101101100 11110111 11101101 10000110 11111 1111011 111011 111010 100011101 01010101 110110000 11010111 1101110 10100011 111110100 10111101 1110110 10010110 111101 11001 11001100 10110110 11111110 1100001 110101000 10100011 1110010 11111111 111011000 11110010 010111110 1111010 11111000 11010111 1101110 1110110 1111100 11010100 111111 10110101 1111000 1111100 11011111 11110101 11111111 1110101 11111100 11001101 11011100 110111 1001101 11001100 11110011 1111011 111101100 1111101 1111110100 101111 11111011 11001111 11100101 101010 1011100 011111 0111110 0101010 11011111 1101110 11011111 01010111 010011100 1111111 11101010 1110110 111000110 11010110 100101100 11001110 11010111 111110 1100011 100100 01010011 11110010 1111101 1100111 11111 10100101 1100111 1111110 111011000 11010101 11110010 111101 1111110 1101111 111110 11111111 110011010 0101111 11001100
- Amount of stanzas: 29
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun, med, det, paa, og, du, ei are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saal, som, de, i are repeated.
The author used the same words sit, merkur, kronion, fortuna at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Til Apol [du Lange, Laurbærkrandste Dreng! ];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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