This is an analysis of the poem Spillemanden that begins with:
I Landsbyen gaaer det saa lystigt til,
Der holdes et Bryllup med Dands og Spil;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXaa XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111101 1101101111 110101111 110101101 11101110 11011100 110111101 1101101001 110110111 1101111 11001111 110110110 10111101 101101001 11111110 11110111101 1111111 11011111 110101010 110110100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; d, han are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words der, han, jeg are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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- summary of Spillemanden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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