This is an analysis of the poem Afskedsbrev that begins with:

Du gaaer herfra, min elskelige Kaas!
Og lukker, nær vor oldenborgske Throne,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcaXXXXXXXX XXXdXXXdXXeXXX XXfXXXXXXX XgXXXgXXXhhiXjiXXXX XXXXXXXXdXXXXkXjXlljXXd XhXXX XXXfXfXXfXXXXXXXXXXkXXXXXXdXXXXXXXdXXXXXXXbbXaXXXX XXXXXXhdXXdX XXXXeXXXfXfX XXXXXXXXXcXXXXXdX XdiXddXXXkkbXkXXXXXXXjXX XXXXXXbbbXXXXXXXXXXXXhXXXXXbfXXX XkXXhXXlXXkXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,14,10,19,23,5,50,12,12,17,24,32,31,61,21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011011001 110111001 1110100010 1110101111 10101111100 101101010 1011000111 11000111 10011111111 11111011 111110010 101110001 0110110110 10010111110 111101001 1011011101 110111111 111111010110 1101110110 1111011101 1111100111 11001101 110011010 11111101110 1101101000 110111100 1110110101 1011010110 1101010101 11101111 110011011 11111110 111110111 101110011 111010011 11111101 11100101 11111001 1100111100 1101010111 11110010 011010111 111110111 1111011010 110110001 101111111 110100111 111101011 1111101 11101111010 11110001 1001110011 1100001101 11010111100 11111111 1000101111 110110011 101111011 1111111100 10111110 11000100 111111110 100111111 11010101 11111111 1111011111 101111101 11110111 11111101 110111111 11111010 110100111 10011111 10011111111 1010111110 11111111 11111011 110111110011 10010111 111101101 111111110 1111010100 110011010 111011101 1101110011 111110100 100101010 11010101 110111011 11101111 101111011 1101111110 1111000110 1011100111 111100101 0100101101 11100011110 1101010100 11111111 111110101 10011010 111011011 1101110111 1101110100 111100011 111100100 111011111 1001100011 1111011001 100110111 110101100111 1100010010 1001001100 1111101001 101100101 1101111111 100101100 1111101 11111110 1001110100 110000110 111111000 11010100 111111111 10110101 10111111 1101100111 111111000 1111011 11111101 110011111 1010110100 1110101101 1101111011 1001011 1100111101 0111110011 111100111 111101111 110111111 1111110111 11111110 1100111101 111110101 1110111111 111111111 11011111 11001111010 1101011101 110111010 111111100 1110110 110101011 11111001 1101100011 100101011 10100101100 1111111111 110111011 111111110 110000110 1111111001 111111100 11110100 11000101100 11000111010 1101111110 11111101010 111101110 11101111 1101010111 110111111 1001110111 11110010110 1110011101 1101011101 1010011101 111001111 111110011 01011011 010100011 10101110 11010101110 11100110 1110101001 1011111110 11010101000 111110101 101111110 010101111 11101001 1111101100 11100010010 1111010111 1101110111 101100010 11100001 0101111101 11111011 11110101 1111111001 111111110 1100011101 1100100101 11111101 11111111 1100110011 11001111 11111100 1110010011 111101001 11111000 1111110111 0111111110 111111111 111110101 110010010 1111011110 1100011111 111111111 101111110 111011000 11010100110 111001100 11111011110 110110010 10110111 1100011111 1111100100 1100111110 11111110 110010101 1111100100 111100011 11110111 0111110100 1110111 10111111 01101101 11011110 110101111 111001111 111101100 111111010 110101010 111110100 101110001010 1100011111 111111000 11111110 110001111 1110111 1100110101 110111101 1101110110 111101111 1111100111 111111111 1111011 11111110 111111101 11001111110 11110111 111011111 11011101110 111100110 111110001 010111111 110110111 11111010 1110011110 1100101010 110111010 101001101 111011111 11001010110 1110101100 11111111 110111101 1110010110 1111111000 1011011100 111101111 11111011 10111101100 1111110 11011110 111011111010 11011111010 111011111 1010001 11111111 110111111 110110001 11011011011 110110011 11111110 1111101001 111011101 1111001011 1110011 1001111 101011001 1101011011 111110101 110011101 1111000110 1101011001 1111101010 111110101 110111101 1010111 1101111000 111001110 01111100 1101111110 100011100 1111101010 111101001 011000101 1110011011 1110010 1011101110 1101111011 1011101110 1101100010 111111111 1111010100 110111011 1111111010 111000111 1100111011 111111111 1101011001 110111010 111001110100 1101010111 111110100111 1101101101100 1111111100010 11101110101 111110011 111001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 875
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 343
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; t, d, den, i, og, let, din, du, mig, jeg, kkes, at, for, v, min are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, er, jeg, hvor, at, hvis, i are repeated.

    The author used the same word du 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 d, den, det, rte, kkes are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

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

Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!

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