This is an analysis of the poem Dødningedandsen that begins with:
Med Store og Smaa gaaer Dandsen fuldtbrav:
Den Knokkelmand snoer sig behænde;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX abab XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111010 1100111 1101101111 1101111 11011111011 11011011 110111011 11011011 110111011 110011000 11011011001 11011100 1100111110 110110110 1100101101 11011010 111101101 11011011 111001011 1101111 1100101101 1111011 1101001011 1011111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 24
- 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; han, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word han is repeated.
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- summary of Dødningedandsen;
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- idea of the verse;
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