This is an analysis of the poem Den Engelske Kapitain that begins with:

Fra Kullagunnarstorp de Svenske saae
I Kattegattet spredt en engelsk Flaade....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XaXXbXca dbdbeXeX XXXXdXdX XXXXXXcX bXXXXXfX XXXadXdX dXdXXXXX XXXfcaXX XXXXXXXb XXXcXXbX XXdXXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110000011 1100011101 1011111 1111111111 1101111001 11110101000 110100101 1101110110 1111011111 01000110 1100011101 101010100 101001011 1001101100 110111111 111110110 110001111 1000011110 111011111 1100011110 0110111 11010111010 1101111001 111111000 111111100 1101111110 1111111101 1101110110 01111111 111101011 1111110110 1011101010 1111110011 111011000 101111011 1111011110 11111110 11111111 111011111 111111111 110011111 11111111010 1100110100 1100011110 1110010110 11111101110 1101010111 11011101100 110101111 1001101100 111111010 101111010 111111110 10110110010 10111111 110111110 111110101 11110011 111111011 11111100 110100010 10010101100 11010110 110111110 1101110111 1111110110 111011111 001111101 111101101 1111110110 111100111 10110111010 1101011100 111110111 100101101 101100111 111100001 1101110110 11101011 1001111110 11010110 111111011 1110010011 110111011 11111111 110011001 1111111101 1101111000 1101111100 1110110 1101100111 1110011101 110111011 110111001 10111110 1111111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, jeg, d, ham, en, vil are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, kun are repeated.

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Den Engelske Kapitain;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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