This is an analysis of the poem Det Sidste Følge that begins with:
De skulde bære den Døde bort;
han laa paa den aabne Baare;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXa bXbX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111 111111 1000111 1111101 101111101 110111 11111101 111011110 111100010 1111110 111111011 11011010 11110111 10111110 1111111 1101110 110011101 11101001 11011111 111111 1111111 111011 11011111 1111111 110111101 11111100 11110111 11010100 11011100 11011111 111101100 111010 11101101 111111 11111111 1111001 1110111 0111011 10111101 1100101 01110111 1110110 11101111111 0111111 111101111 1111011 11111111 110111 11110101 110111 111101100 111010110 01011011011 111001 11111001 101111 11010111 11110100 1101111 10110000 11110111 1111000 111101100 1101110
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 64
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; som, han, de, og, var are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words det, han are repeated.
The author used the same word den at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase de connects the lines.
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- summary of Det Sidste Følge;
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- idea of the verse;
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- critical appreciation.
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