This is an analysis of the poem Poetisk Note Til Digtet: Erindringblad Fra Hovedstaden that begins with:

Alverden mig belærer, man mener det saa godt!
Ja selv i Morgenposten besynges jeg saa smaat;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXXXbbXaaXbXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100110110111 1111000100111 1011110110111 110101111001 111100110100 1111110110 110110010111 10110111111 11110011111 110100011111 11111111111 11111111111 101110101111 1111101111010 111011011100 11111001110 11111110010 1111100011110 100110110000 111111011110 0111101101 1101111111 1101000111101 111110111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 233
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines k is repeated).

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  • summary of Poetisk Note Til Digtet: Erindringblad Fra Hovedstaden;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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