This is an analysis of the poem Skovfruens Latter that begins with:

En stille Sommeraftenstund
Ved Døren stod de Begge,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX XXbX XXaX aXac dXXX XXXX XdXd bXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XcXX dXXX XXXX efef bXXX XXXX gXgX XXXX XXXX XXXf efXX XXdf XXXX XXXX XXXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110000 11101 11111011 11111 1101111 100101 1111111 11111 111010 0011011 111101 11011100 11111111 1111 1111111 110001 111011 0100100 1101101 10110 10111 1101001 10111111 111111 10111101 110101 111111 110111 10111101 111110 1110001 1101110 10111101 101100 11110101 111110 1011111 110101 1101111 110011 01111011 11111 1100111 111111 111111 1111 11110101 110101 1111011 111010 111111 110101 1111101 111100 0111011 11011111 110111 111100 10111111 111110 10111110 111111110 101101 111110 11011111 110101 1111101 1111111 11111111 111110 111011111 11001 1110111 1111111 1111111 110111 10010111 11111 1101111 0101 10111111 11111 1111100 11110000 1111101 1111010 110111 11110 11110 1111010 1100111 11110000 111111101 11101 11010101 1111010 11111 1101110 1111111 1101100 1101111 111101 110111 111101 11001111 110110 1111101 10110
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, og, d, jeg, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, og, jeg, saa are repeated.

    The author used the same words det, dit, din, han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Skovfruens Latter;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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