This is an analysis of the poem Troldmanden Og Lærlingen that begins with:
Lad mig den store Konst opdage,
Hvorpaa du grunder Dag og Nat!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXX XXXXbbXXbXXXX Xccdd XDXXXXXXXeXXXeeXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXX XDXXXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbbX XXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXdeX XXXXaccXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,13,5,21,13,30,21,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110 10010111 11110110 1001101 100 1011 101101101 110101110 1011111 010101010 110111011 111001111 11011001 111110101 110101110 1100101101 111111010 10 111000101 101011011 1111111111 1111111001 100 101 01011 010110101 1010 111011100 0110010 110101100 10001111 1111110 11011010 1111011 110101 1100011010 1101110 110111100 1101 111100 10111 0101111 1101011 10 1110010 1101111 110100 111111 1001111 110101 11010100 11101 111101010 110101000 11111111100 111111100 100 101 010100101 1111 1111 11011 01101101 1101010 1010111 10101010 101011 10101101 110011 1110100 101000111 1100011110 1111111111 110110111 11011101 100010 11100100 1001101001 1010101101 1101101 1011010 100111001 01110111 010010111 1111001001 100111001 10 11111110110 1111011110 111101110 110111011 110111011 1011001111 1111111 11100101 111111110 101001101 110110110110 1101101101 111111 110010010 110110 10001010100 11110 1111 1100011110 110 100 101110110 111 101011110 111 1011 011100101 0111 011101101 1111 100011
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 474
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 118
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, d, mod, ve, de, jeg, liv, i, det, af, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vil, de, held, det, du are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ye, ve are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases der, liv connect the lines.
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- summary of Troldmanden Og Lærlingen;
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