This is an analysis of the poem Fortrøstning that begins with:
Jeg sad og saae
mod Skyen graa,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXX Xaa XXX XXX bXX cXX XbX XXX ddX cXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111 111 1101111 111 1011 1101011 111 111 1111111 1111 1111 1111010 1111 1101 11011100 111 1110 1111101 111 1111 11001111 1111 111 01011011 1101 1111 11011101 111 1110 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 64
- Average number of words per stanza: 13
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg is repeated.
The author used the same words jeg, og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Fortrøstning;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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