This is an analysis of the poem Kan Du Forklare Mig, Hav? that begins with:
Kan Du forklare mig, Hav: -
Hvorfor i al Verden jeg strider og stræber,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,7,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101011 10111011011 1111111 101101110 1111010 10111101 11101110 1111101000 110111110 1111111 110111010 111111010 1101110 11110111111 1011111100 011111111 1101111111 11011011110 1010101111 10111100 110100111 11011011100 1111111100 1110011 1101111111 0101101111 1101111110 111011 1111110 111111 111111 110110111 1111110 10111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; som, jeg, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, hvor, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ber is repeated).
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