This is an analysis of the poem Den Sande Fryd that begins with:

Kom, glade Overgivenhed
og Fryd for Ingenting,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaB XcXc bXXX aXdX XaXa aXaX XXXX efeX XXXX XXga gXgX XXfX XdXX aBXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110000 111100 11111101 1111101 11111011 110111 1100100 110111 11111111 110111 1111111 011101 11111111 110011 11010111 111110 111111101 11111 11101101 110111 1111111 100111 10011111 111101 11111101 11111 11111101 111001 1111111 111110 101011 110101 110101011 110110 111101 111100 1101010 111011 11110111 101111 111110 11101 111111 111110 11011001 11011 11010111 11111 1111100 11011 111111 11100 11110111 1111101 1110000 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 108
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, min, r, mig, det are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Den Sande Fryd;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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