This is an analysis of the poem Prolog that begins with:

Vort Hjem er paa den lave Ø,
Ombeltet høit af Sund og Sø;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbXaXXXXXXXXXXcXXXXXXXddeeXXXXXbXXXXXXeXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 64,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 10011111 1111101 1111001 11010111 1111111 111111 110111 111111 1110111 1110111 1101100 1111111 01011111 1101101 11010111 110011 1001110110 1110001 1111111 11110111 101111 1110010 1101111 11110111 1001111 1101110 10010110 1000101 111111100 11110110 111111 111111 111110101 1010101 10111011 11010101 1111100101 111100110 111101010111 1101110 1101111 11011110 1110011 1111111 11010111 11011110 11111 111111000 11111010 11111110 11111111 1111111 111100111 11010101 1110001 1000110111 111011101 1101110011 111000101 1001011 1011110111 11101110 1100001110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2179
  • Average number of words per stanza: 420
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, vi, af, d, at, saa are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vi, har are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

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