This is an analysis of the poem Matrosen that begins with:
Ved Toldboden steeg en Matros i Land,
Hans Haar de vare saa hvide,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa XaXa XXXX bXbX XXXX XXXX XcXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXaX Xcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100111011 110111 1111110 11101 1111111 110111 1111101 111101 111111011 111111 11011001 111100 1111111 1101101 11011101 1000101 1011111 110110 11001101 1100110 111111 111010 101101111 0100010 1111111 011010 11011110 110110100 11111101 1101111 111001101 1111111 11100011111 111111 11111100 10111 11111111 111111 1101010 110111 1111100 111001 11110110 111011 110111111 1101111 1001111 1111101 111111101 1101011 111101011 111111 1111111 0111110 11111111 11011110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; i, de, d, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, det are repeated.
The author used the same word saa at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word de at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Matrosen;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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