This is an analysis of the poem Skriftemaalet that begins with:
Pater Joseph! laan mig Øre!
Som en angergiven Synder...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX X bXXc XXXXXBX XXXX DX X XX X X XXXbdXXbXXBXXX DXXXX XX bXXXX XXXXXXXXBbbXdXX DXXXXXeXbfbXX XXXXXXdXXXXXXXX XXgXXb d X XXXXbaXX XXXXXXXcXbgXXXXXXeXf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,4,7,4,2,1,2,1,1,14,5,2,5,15,13,15,6,1,1,8,20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 11100010 1011101 111111 1101111 1101110 1010110 1111111 10001010 1011111 1110111 10100100 10101110 10101010 1111110 1011111 1111110 111111 1110111 1110001 1010111 11111110 1111010 1110110 11101110 10101110 110111 1011010 10111110 1010101 111110 1010111 101101 10101010 10101110 10101010 11001010 1111110 1011111 1111011 11101010 1010111 11101110 10111110 1111010 1110110 11101110 110 10110 1010110 11101101 101101 1111110 1011011 1011101 10101010 10010010 1111110 0111101 11111010 11001010 1111110 11001010 10111010 1111010 1110111 1110110 11001100 1010111 1110110 1111010 1010111 1010110 11101010 11111 1111111 1011110 1110111 1101110 111 11111 10111110 11101110 1011110 1010001 1110111 111011 1101111 110100 1110111 11111110 101011 1101010 10101110 11111110 1111110 1101111 1010101 11100010 110100 1110101 11111010 11 11111 11101010 0111110 111110 1001111 10111010 111111 111111 11101111 11101110 111101 11000100 1110101 101111 111011 100110 110011 011110 10101110 1011110 110111 0111010 011110 1111110 0110001 1010011 1100101 11001100 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 22
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 133
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; det, mig, var, n, jeg, hos, hvem, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words naar, hvis, var, du are repeated.
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- summary of Skriftemaalet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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