This is an analysis of the poem Hvis En Telegraph Man Vidste that begins with:

Hvis en Telegraph man vidste,
Som fra Hjertet kunde bringe...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXaXXXXXbbbcXXXXXXXXddX XXXeXXXXbXXXXXXX cXXXXffXXXXXXXXXXXXX XeeX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,16,20,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111 111011 1011101 111101 101101 101111 111110111 111011 1110110 1100101 1111110 11010100 101101 1010111 110111 111111 011001 1110100 1111110 1111111 1010110 1111100 11111100 1011010 011110 11101 101111 101111 00110110 101011 1001011 1110110 101101 11111000 110110 111101 1010111 1101110 1010110 111110 1110 1010111 111011 1010101 01111 111111101 1111011 011111 101111 1101101 111111 1110111 1111111 1011111 111111 111111 1111101 111111 11110 101110 11101100 1111101 1111101 1111110 0110111 11101110 101010 11101110 111111 101111 11101 1110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 414
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; du, jeg are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines re, vne, mper are repeated).

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  • summary of Hvis En Telegraph Man Vidste;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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