This is an analysis of the poem Det Tabte Paradis that begins with:

Naar den svindende Sol med et bristende Skær
Af de Roser, der falme, den Flora, som dør,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbaacb XXXaXXXXXX XXXXXdd XXXXXXXX XXXXXeXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXffX XccXXXXX XXeXgXgX XhXhXXgX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,10,7,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110111101 101011110110 111100101 111111010111 111111101 1000110111 10100110101 110110 11010 11011011111 11101101111 111110111 1110101101 1111111111 111110111 1001111 11101111101 111111111 11111010 11101011011 11010011010 110111111 1110100111 111111111 11111111111 11011011011 11110011111 11111011011 11101110001 1001110100 11111101 11010111000 1011001001 11001111 1101111101 111101111 1011111000 1101111101 0101111111 11111011001 1111011011 0101101111 11011011010 1101111001 1101101101 111111 1111111011 111101111 1111111110 11111011 1111011110 1111101111 1111011110 11011011011 1111011001 11110110110 11111110110 1111011111 110010110110 110110110010 11001101110 11110100010 11011101001 111111111 1111111011 1100111110 1100101111 1111011011 11111011001 1001110101 11111111 1101110100 1011101001 10111011 11011011110 1101011101 110110110 110110111 111101111 110110111 10101011011 1101111111 11011011111 11011011011 11101011001 11011111001 11001101001 101111110110 1101011001 100110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 90
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; r, den, og, som, han, var, d, i, din, hun, paa, om, det, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, han, den, da, om, det 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.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).

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  • summary of Det Tabte Paradis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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