En Drøm by Hans Vilhelm Kaalund: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem En Drøm that begins with:

Et Samlingspunkt jeg trængte til,
hvorved jeg fæste kunde,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXX bXXX XXXX XXXX bXXX XXbX XXXX XXXa cXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100111 10111 11111101 11110 1101101 110001 1111110 1111011 11110111 110111 11011101 11101 11011111 11100 1110111 111101 11011101 10110 1111101 11001 1111101 1101100 1101011111 1111100 11000111 111110 1111110 11110 11110101 1101110 111110 1111110 11111100 11111 111110010 11101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (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, vet, r are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of En Drøm;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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