This is an analysis of the poem Ved En Givet Forestilling Til Indtægt For,,Den Blinde Soldat'' that begins with:

Tillad jeg siger hvad De alt veed,
Meget her maae De ikke vente,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXXaXccXdXdXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101011 1001011 1111110 110101 11011101 111011 110111101 111101 1110110 110111101 11110101 11011111 11111101 11111111 11011100 1111111 001011111 1111001001 010011101 11010011 11111111 11011111 10111101 1101101 11101110 11111111 1101111 11101111 11000110 1101101111 110111111 11010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1145
  • Average number of words per stanza: 222
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • 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; de, og, er are repeated.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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