Hvis Du, O Goethe! Hendes Tanker by Christian Winther: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Hvis Du, O Goethe! Hendes Tanker that begins with:

Hvis du, o Goethe! hendes Tanker
Kan fængsle, fylde hendes Sind;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111010 111101 10110110 1111110 11111 111011 11011110 1111011 111111110 1101111 110111110 110001111 101100110 11010011 11001111 10110101 11010111 1101010 1011111 11111110 1111011 1110101 1110101 1101011 11011011 1100010 01111110 111111 1011011 11110110 110111 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 258
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hendes, jeg, en are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word at is repeated.

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