This is an analysis of the poem I Mellemakten that begins with:
Med Tæppet faldt Skranken for Stilheden atter;
Men bort var Publikums Snakken og Latter....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xa XX XX XX XX aX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110110010 11110010110 11011011011 111101111 11110111100 111101110110 111111110 110110111110 110110111100 111110010 1101100110 11100110100 11110111 1101111111 1111010110 1100001110 1101111110 1110111010 1101111111 111111000 110101110 11001010010 1101001 111110001 010100101 011011001 11000011110 11011111100 1100011111 11010111111 11011011001 111001111
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; man, var, havde, sig, den, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words man, den, de are repeated.
The author used the same word den 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 se, mme, jet, je are repeated).
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- summary of I Mellemakten;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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