This is an analysis of the poem Opgørelse that begins with:
Han har vundet, — hun har givet tabt;
Ingen Blomster dog den Sejer kranser....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX bXbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111011101 1010111010 101110111 101110110 11101111 1110001110 11101111 1110111110 111011110 111111010 111111101 101110110 110011111 1011111 11111111 1111111 110011111 101111101 111000111 10110111 10111111 101110010 110110111 11111010 110110100 11100011 1110100 1111111 11111111 110001000 1111111 11111110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; har, hun are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word hun is repeated.
The author used the same word han at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Opgørelse;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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