This is an analysis of the poem Tanker Ved En Ituslagen Jydepotte that begins with:

Du er ei meer!
Din Digter græder ved Dit brudte Leer....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXXXbbXX ccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 00110 11011111 111111111 1101011111 1111111 111101111 1110011111 110101101 11011100110 1111100110 1101011101 011011101 1110111 111011100 1111111000 11000111000 1111100111 110101111 1111111101 111010101 110101101 11111111 1011111110 1111 110111101 111111101 1101010110 1110 111101111 111111101 1111011111 11111111 11100111010 101110110 110111101 1101111101 110111110 111111110 1101110111 11111111 1101 11001111 111110111 11101011 11101011 111101011 111011111 1111010011 1110 1111 1101 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 972
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tte, mme, ge are repeated).

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  • summary of Tanker Ved En Ituslagen Jydepotte;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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