This is an analysis of the poem Silkeormen that begins with:
Hos alle Dødelige,
I hvert et Bryst, der aander,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXX XXXX XXbX aXXX XXXa XXXX XXXb XXXX XXXX XXaX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110 1111110 11111 1100110 1101110 1011110 1101110 1101110 110100 111111 1100010 11111 110111 11011 1100010 11111 1101110 1111100 1111010 1101110 1100110 111110 111101000 1011110 111101000 11010 1101010 111111 1101110 110111 1110100 101110 11001 11111 110110 111101 1111110 110111 11101 110001 1111110 011101 1101110 111111 1101000 111111 110110 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; i, den, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, i, den are repeated.
The author used the same word og at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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