This is an analysis of the poem Den Hemmelighedsfulde Port that begins with:

Paa denne Verdens Grændsemur
Lønporten til en ny Natur...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXaXX XXbXXb XXXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 1011110 1111 1101101 11100101 110111 11011101 11010111 11101 11111 1101101 11111 111111 111001 11001 11011110 1101011 110111 1101111 11011111 111110 1001101 01111101 1101110 1101110 11010001 111100 1101011 10001110 11001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 30
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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

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  • summary of Den Hemmelighedsfulde Port;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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