This is an analysis of the poem Til Hende that begins with:
Mens Vintersolen daler bag den rødmende Sky,
min søde, lille Brud i det Fjerne!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaXXbcX XXXdcece XXXXXdXX XXXXXXXX fXfXgXgX XXXXXXXX XcXXXXXd XdXXXebX cXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11000101111 1111111 110111011101 11011001 11011111101 1101110001 11010111101 11011101 1011111111 110011011 11011011110 110011111 11011011101 101111110 111111111 111100010 1101111111 111111111 1111111011 01011111 11011011110 101110001 1101110100 11010000 011110111010 011110111 111101010 11111011 0101111111 11111111 11111111111 110111111100 1111111111111 11010001 11100111111 11010111 11011111111 1101110111 11111110111 110111111 1011110111 111111100 10111111111 111111110 10111110011 110010010 110101111111 1110101110 111110111101 11111111 11011111011 11011110 111110110010 111111011 1101010110100 1110101 1101110011011 1111011 1111011110 110110111 1011100101 1101101110 1011111101 10111110 110110101 111110111 1101101101 11111111 110111111111 11011110 111111100 11111111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 339
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, l, de, endnu, og, saa, en are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, nu, det, du, og, saa, for, endnu are repeated.
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- summary of Til Hende;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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More information about poems by Hans Vilhelm Kaalund
- Analysis of Til Historiemaler, Professor Eckersberg
- Analysis of Til Kong Frederik Den Syvende
- Analysis of Til Min Hustru!
