This is an analysis of the poem En Maske that begins with:
En Stump af et Skørt; en Slags Trøje,
Nedskaaret dybt over Skuldren, saa Barmen...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111111 10011010110 1011011111 1101111 1011110 011001011 11110110110 1001011001 10110111010 101011110100 111011101000 110111111 11101101 11111111 11001101 11111111 1101101010 11111100 1111111111 101111010 0011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; je, og, hun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hun is repeated.
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- summary of En Maske;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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