This is an analysis of the poem Trøst that begins with:
Stakkels Digter! du beklager dig, at paa din Gammelalder
Mænd, selv uden Kraft og Vinger, stundom dig en Fusker kalder?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010011111000 1110111010111010 11110101011011 1011111101010000 1001100011011010 111111011111 111001111100 1101011011101 11010101101101 10101101010111 111000111101 101011101111101 1111111111010 1010100011001100 10111101011111 11110101011101 10111001111111 10111111111101 111010111011 110111011000 10101111001 1111010011111 10111111011111 1111101110111 11001011011100 1011111111100 10110101010101 10001000101110 11010101101100 101011101110 110111011010 1101111010011 1011001101111 11110101110100 1011011011111 10101101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dig, som are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nner, rdig are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Trøst;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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