This is an analysis of the poem Ved En Forestilling Af Familien Price that begins with:

Nu er det Vinter, det vi Alle føle,
Og har vi ikke Snee, saa har vi Søle,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXXbbaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101111 111111111 1101111110 11010110010 1101111000 1111001100 0100001101 0101000111 1001010111 1111000111 1000110100 1111011100 1101100110 1101110010 11000111 11011111 11011101 1110000101 11011011 1011001100 1111111100 110110100 11101011 11111111 1011111101 1100110100 1101111011 1111111101 11001111 1010111101 1011010101 10111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1226
  • Average number of words per stanza: 226
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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, ei, det, den are repeated.

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

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

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  • summary of Ved En Forestilling Af Familien Price;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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