This is an analysis of the poem Sange Fra »genrebilleder« that begins with:

Hvilende,
Lukkende...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXa bXXbXXcXdcXd XXXeXX XXXXXX XXXXXX XaXXXX XXXXbbX XbXXXXX fXfXgge XXXXXXX XXgXXXX baXaXXX XXXXfXX XXXXXfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,6,6,6,6,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 10 1111 10 10 1011 11 10 1011 11 10 1111 101 1 111 101 1 1111 10 1 101 10 1 1111 1101 11011 1101100101 1110 11110 1111101011 11011 1111 11011011000 1111 10111 11011011011 1111 1111 11111001 110100 111000 111111001 11011 10011 1101101001 11111 11011 111111101 11001111 110101 1001100 111100 011010 01111111 111100 11011101 1101111 11110101 1011010 1001111 11011101 1100110 11110101 1101100 11110001 01100 11111111 111111 10010 11110111 111110 01001111 111100 11011111 0101001 111110 11111101 111111 1111001 011011 1111111 11111101 111001 1101010 111101 11110100 111111 1111100 11110101 111110 111111 0111 0101111 1111 1111011 1110111 110001 11111 111110 11011111 1111010 1101111 1110101 1101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, saa, jeg, det are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words n, saa, som, vi, i are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de, lges are repeated).

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  • summary of Sange Fra »genrebilleder«;
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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