This is an analysis of the poem Den Firbenede Proletar that begins with:

Sé Pudlen med det purrede Skind;
hvor boltrer den sig med lystigt Sind...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXXX XXXXXX XXXbXX XXXXXX XXaXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX bXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX aXXXXX XXXXXX aaXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 110111101 1110110 111010111 11110100 110100100 1010101101 01101101 111111 1111101101 110111111 1111110 110111101 1101111101 101011100 111101111 110110111 11110110 1111111011 111111111 111111110 111101101 1100011000 1111010 1101011011 11011111 11011111 11110111 100101111 0101110 1111101111 110000110 11010110 1100111011 11011011001 11011110 1111101 11111011 11000100 010110101 1110010011 10110110 111111101 11001011110 1111001 11101110 1101101101 110111111 110111111 1111111 1111101 11011001101 110110111 1101110 1101101111 110110010 1110110 110110101 101101100 1101100 110110001 1111100 110101 01110110 1110111 1100111 01111111 111001101 11010110 110101001 110111101 1101010 1111011 110101011 11110110 11101101 110001101 01011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; den, og, var, stop, i, r, han are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, den, til, han are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d, rst, r are repeated).

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  • summary of Den Firbenede Proletar;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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