This is an analysis of the poem En Middag that begins with:

See, vort lille Taffel speiler
Sig i Floden — See Forellen...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111010 11101100 1010111 1101 110001 1010100 11111 110010 110011 11100100 11101110 11000100 11101100 1011101 1011110 1011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 110
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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; os, vinker are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word see at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of En Middag;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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