This is an analysis of the poem Ballade that begins with:
Hvo vover det? enten den skaldede Mand
Eller han med den tykke, rødlige Top...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,4,4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101101101 10111111 1111110 11110111 1111111010 11111110 11100111 1011101 0101101111 111101101 101011010 1101101010 111111000 1111101 1011101001 11010011 111101110 110101110 11011 01111 1001100 110110 11111 11011 1101011 10111 111111010 110110 1111000 1111100 11011001 11011001 1101 1001001 1111001 1010110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; den, i, r are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word med is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dme is repeated).
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- summary of Ballade;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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