This is an analysis of the poem Bekjendelser that begins with:

Tit er jeg glad, og vil dog gjerne græde;
Thi intet Hjerte deler heelt min Glæde....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaa XXXX XXXX aXXX XXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111 110110111 1011001111 11011111 110111111 1101111110 11111111 110101111 1011110111 110101111 1011110110 110101010 110111111 110111010 10111110 1111101 10111111 01111111 11101101 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, og, er, du are repeated.

    The author used the same word tit at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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