This is an analysis of the poem Prolog that begins with:
Jeg følte en uendlig, stille Stræben
At sjunge det, mit indre Øie saae,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XaXaXaXX XXXXXXXX XXXbXbXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111011 111111111 1111101101 11011111 111011101 111011101 1101111100 1110111100 1111111100 11100111 11111111000 100111100 1111100110 110110111 111010111 110111101 110101110 110011111 1011011110 1111011101 01110110 0011101111 11010011010 1101011 011110110 01111001 1101011110 11101111 110111010 11010111 1101011110 11011101010 10011111 110101011 111101111 11010111111 11111111 1101111111 1111111110 011011101 101100100 11100111 10110100 110100111 11111101010 111111111 110101100 11001101100 1111111110 11011111 1101111100 1111001111 1101011110 11111110 11111011 111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 317
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 56
- 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; ben, at, jeg, du, ie are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words at, du, og are repeated.
The author used the same word jeg 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 mme is repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Prolog;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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