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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