This is an analysis of the poem Sophia Af Hardenberg that begins with:
Kong Frederik spored høien Hengst:
»Hvorfor vil saalænge Du nøle?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXXXbbcX dddXXeXX fXfXXXXX dXXXXdXX XXXXggXX XcXchhXX XXXXXXXX dXiXdiXi XXXXdXXe XXXXXXXX XXXXaXXX AXXXXddX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001011 101101 11010111 1101111 10101101 11111111 1111110 1101101 111101101 10011 111001101 111101 110001011 110111101 11011011 11111 010110110 111110 1101101111 1111100 111101101 11110111 11111111 11011 1111111111 111111 110101100 11010111 101100101 111111 1101100 101101 110011101 11011010 110111001 11011110 110011110 11110111 1011101 1111101 1101111011 110010110 110101101 111110110 01110111 01111111 11011011 1111111 1100111001 1100111 1111101 10110 1110101 100110101 11010110 10001000 10110111 111111 1101101101 1110111 111101101 11110011 111110110 1101101 110011111 1101111 11001101 110101 110111101 11101100100 11011001 1101101 111111 110111 101101111 1111001 1101111 110111101 1001010 111111 110011111 1101000 11010111 11011000 11110111 111101010 11110110 1100111 11001011 1011101 11010111 1101111 10010111 111101111 11111 1001101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 269
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 96
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; du, min, jeg, dig, gav, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, du are repeated.
The author used the same word kong at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Sophia Af Hardenberg;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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