This is an analysis of the poem Præludium [dagen Har Været Saa Trykkende Hed] that begins with:
Dagen har været saa trykkende hed;
— Gondolierer, ro væk!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaaXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXaXXX XaXXXXXXXX bXbXccXXXXdXed XeaXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,10,14,12,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111101 100011 111001111 110001011 1101101 101110010 111101 11011001 10010010 10010111 010 11000010 1111111 110010 0100101101 1110100 1101011011 1011101010 110110111 101101001 11110101 110 1010010 111111 1101111 1101101101 1011001 11001101 1101101 1111 100101 0100111111 11001111 110111001 101001 110111101 11100101 111101011 110101101 111001 1101011001 111111 1100 110110 1111111 101101101 11011010 10111101 100011 100101101 100011110 110111 11100101 1001101011 1101101 11011011011 110111111 111 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 59
- 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; af is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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- summary of Præludium [dagen Har Været Saa Trykkende Hed];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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