This is an analysis of the poem Rosenrøde Drømme that begins with:

Han.
Du sidder i Baaden, som svømmer,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXb XXbXaXXa acXacXXXdXX dXXXXdXXdd XeeXXdXddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,11,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01011011 11110 11011 11111 1100101 101101 0101101 010010010 11101 11110 11011010 110111 01111110 1111001 01011011 110110110 1 11111111 11101 111101101 11011111 101110 1100 0111 10111 1110110011 111111 11111 11101 1101101011 111 1111 1101 111 10111 1111111011 1101011 1111 101001 11011011101 11111 1111 1101 10111 11111 101100111101 10100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 257
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, der are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words mod, de, som are repeated.

    The author used the same word jeg 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).

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  • summary of Rosenrøde Drømme;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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