This is an analysis of the poem Sommerfuglene that begins with:
En Sommerfuglesamling er disse mine Sange.
De flagred i mit Indre, dér tog jeg dem tilfange....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX aa Xa XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000000111 010111111011110 11111011010 11110111111 110111110110 11011101111010 1101110111101 0110110111 110111111101 11111110 1111110111101 01111011011 10111111110 11001101 1101101011 10110111000 11111111101 01110110101 11011101111111 110111111 0111111101110 11111111111010 110110110110 11100111010 11011100001 11011101001 1110001110 11101011011 11111010111 111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 94
- Average number of words per stanza: 19
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, jeg, dem, vil, og, kun, som, o are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, jeg, maaske are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines mme, nke, rmer are repeated).
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- summary of Sommerfuglene;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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