This is an analysis of the poem Paa Sjælland — Ii that begins with:
Gav stedse Brød hver fattig Sjæl,
Som betled for min Dør,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXXXXX XXXXXcXcX XXXXdXdcX XabXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111101 1101110 11111 111 1111111 01111 011111 11011 0101110101 111010 01100 010111 101 010010101 0101110 111111000 1110010 1111110001 1110101 010101 01100 101 0111011 100110 0111101 110110 0110111100 1111101 1101110 11111 10 11010101 11111 1101101 10011 110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 50
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hver, n, de are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words de, hvor are repeated.
The author used the same word hvad 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 r is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word der at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Paa Sjælland — Ii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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