This is an analysis of the poem Til Rosen that begins with:

Rose, yndige Rose! naar jeg Dig sér,
er det, som Glædens Engel til mig lér,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXa bbcXXXa XXXXXXa XXcXdda XXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111110 011110111 101110101 1011011011 011011101 110101110 00111111101 1001111110 1110010111 1010110011111 1010111111 101111110 11111100 110110101 1001011110 1001110101 10100111001 11111101 1000110100 1100111011 101110011 111111111 101101100 1101011111 11111100111 100000101 1010110110 1110000101 1000111101 10001101101 111101011 11101011001 1000101111 101111011001 1111001011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 272
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; er, og, du, saa are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, rge, je, lder, re, m are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word rose at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Til Rosen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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