This is an analysis of the poem Til Fru..... that begins with:
Til Dem, som tidt har skjændt,
fordi jeg tav stille,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXbXXXb XXXXXXXb cXdeXXXe fXXXcfaX XXXdXXXd XfXXXXXX eXXXeXcX XXXcXXXc XXXXXXXX XXXXdXXX XdXXXdXX XXXgXXXg XXXXadXX XXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 10111 111111 110111 110011 1101 1101110 11011 110111 110100 011110 111011 111110 110000 1111110 11111 11011 1110010 011111 111111 111101 1101 1101100 11011 1101010 111110 11111 11100 11111 1101110 1111110 100110 10110 11011 1000110 1111 110110 101101 111110 11011 11011 1111010 0011000 11111 1101000 11010 1011010 11001 111101 1011000 1110010 11011 11011 1001110 11111 111011111 110111 1101110 110111 11110 101101 1011110 0111110 1111 11111 110111 11110 111100 1101101 110100 100111 11010 101110 100110 11111 11001 11010110 110110 110110 111011 1101110 100111 1111111 11000 11010 110111 1100010 110010 101010 111111 101110 10110 1101111 110010 11111 111101 11111 1101010 11011100 1011 1101010 1101110 111101 100111 110101 11111 111101 111100 1101100 1111 11011 111010
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; til, jeg, i, og, har, er are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words jeg, og, det, med are repeated.
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More information about poems by Hans Vilhelm Kaalund
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- Analysis of Til Kong Frederik Den Syvende
