This is an analysis of the poem Alperne that begins with:
Saa kom jeg da til Schweiz? — Saa lod mig Skiæbnen stige
Til denne mine Sværmeriers Top?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXXXXXbXXbX cXdXX XXeXXeXfXcXXXX XXXXXeXXffXXXXXXdX XXXXggXXXcXXXX XXXXeeXhXfh XXXXXXffbXXXXXXXXX iddi XXXXXXbXXbXjXXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,5,14,18,14,11,18,4,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111111101 111101 111111111 11001101 11101111101 111111100110 11111010 1111100110 1110011 11010100100 111101100 1101100100 1001110001 11111100 11000110001 100111111 1111110010 1110001010 1110010001 1111111101 1111110010 1011111010 1110010101 110110001 111110011 111111011 1101111101 1100010101 11111111110 11010100101 1110001101 11101100111 11011111010 11111111100 1011111110 11 11111111 1111110 1111010100 110111111 1110111000 11011001100 111101111 111111101 110011 1111101100 10111001 111111001 1111111010 1110110011 111101101 1100111101 1011011111010 110101101 111111010 1101011101 01010111 111111 11110111111 1111101111 11110111010 11110100110 11111000 111110010 1111111110 111110100 111101100 11001111 111110101 110101110110 1101111101 1101010111 110111001 11110111011 1100111101 111111101 11101011111 11111011 110101111 1001010110 1110010101 1100111111010 1101111100 111100101101 010011000011 1101110010 101110010 010101010 1111111 10110111011 110101100110 1101 11111101110 11111000 11110000 110101111 11111111 1101110111 11010011 1011111111 10111111 11111111111 1111111 1101011001 11110101111 1111111110 111101110101 1100010100 111010110 11011001 101011010111 110111100 111111 1110011111
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 492
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 114
- 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; til, saa, en, i, jeg, og, hvor, h, som, o, er, min are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, som, jeg, hvor, o, til are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines vet, ver, ie are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Alperne;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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