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

Tilgiv mig, uforglemmelige Frue!
At jeg, som nys har lært en smule dansk,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXX XXXaXXXXb XXaccaXXXXXXXXaabXX XddXXdXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXeXae XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,19,10,17,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100001 111111111 11011111101 111011111 1111110010010 1101111 111110010 10110010010 11010101010 1010110101 11001101010 1111011 100011001 111110110 111110101 1000111101 1000111111110 111101111 111101110111 1111011001 11110100001 1101111010 11111111 111110101 01101 1111010101 1111111101 110111111 1111011101 11100011 110011100 1101010100 11101111 1001111 11101100 0101111111 11010101101 111011 11010011 1101011111 11011111 1101010101 1101111111 1110110101 1111011001 1100011111 10101101 1110011000 1100011101 110110001 10111101 1111110110 1011011100 110110111110 11111101 11111101 1111111 11111011 1101110011 11110101100 011111100 110101100 0101011101 11011111011 111101110 11001111 111110111 101010111 11111011101 111101101 010100101 11101100 101100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 87
  • Amount of lines: 73
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, t, han, og, min are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words erindrer, jeg, han, og are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines t is repeated).

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

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

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