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

Mod Livet de Ufødte frem sig stride;
Men — hvad de kæmpe for, de ikke vide....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa XX XX XX bb cX XX cX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001111 11011011 11101110 1001110111 10110111 111110111 11011110 11101110 11011101110 101011010 100110111 10111100 11100101 1111111111 100111011 1111010110 111001111 110101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 79
  • Average number of words per stanza: 15
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; de is repeated.

    The author used the same word mod 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 rer is repeated).

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

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