This is an analysis of the poem Manden Paa Dueslaget that begins with:

Fra femte Stokværk til Husets Kvist
og saa tilvejrs ad en Stige,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXaX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbX XXXXXXXX XaXaXXXX XXXXbXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111101 1110111 110101110 1011101 100101100 110001110 1111111 1001001 11111101 1101100 111111010 11110110 1110110010 1111111 1111011011 1111011 111011011 111101 11111101 1110111 111101101 1111000 110110100 1110110 1100101111 11011100 11111111 11011100 101111 11111010 111011010 11000110 110111011 010111110 11011111 1111110 11101111 1111110 1111111 1110110 11110111 111100 1110111 111110 111101101 11000100 11111101 11010100 1011011101 1100111 111101101 1111011 11011101 111111100 1101111011 10101100 111111001 1100110 1111101 1100010 1101110111 111100 1101111011 1111111 110111101 111101 111111100 111110 110101101 11110110 111011100 1111110 11110111 101101 1100111111 11101 01110110 110111111 111010111 10110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 266
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • 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; og, jeg, hans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words om, og, hans are repeated.

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  • summary of Manden Paa Dueslaget;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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