This is an analysis of the poem Karl For Frederikshald that begins with:

Det brøler og brager om Frederikshald
Med buldrende Drøn, med raslende Knald,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaX XXXXbcXXXdXX XXXXXX XXXbbXXX XXXXXXXdXXX XbXXXXXXdXX XXXXX cXcXXXXXXXXdXddXbXXXeebb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,12,6,8,11,11,5,24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011000 11011101 11001110001 11011101 11011111 11111101 1111101101 111110101 10111101 101001001 10101111 1111111110 101011110 101010000 11001010 100101111 1111001111 1101010110 1011101 101111010 11011101 111110101 1110111001 01110111 11001111 11111000 110101111 111101101 11111111 101111 1101111 111111001 11011011011 011110 0101101 111100101 1011101 11111 11010101010 11011010110 11010111 101001011 0101111010 11011101 01111011110 10111000 11010110 101100110110 100111110 111010100110 1101111110 11011111011 11011111010 110101101 111111111 1000001011 100101001 100110010 1101101101 111101010 1110001 1101010110 10011101 110111110 11001100010 11111011 101110101 11111101 111111001 11001101010 1111011010 110100110 1101011010 1110110110 10011001 110100110100 1000111 10111100 1011101 1101111001 10111011 110110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
  • Average number of words per stanza: 70
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; med, i, som, og are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words med, ve, hvad, de, hvor, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines den, ver, nge, rne are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase staar connects the lines.

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  • summary of Karl For Frederikshald;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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