This is an analysis of the poem De Himmelskes Afskedsbrev that begins with:
Du seer — maaskee før næste Sol er runden,
Alt visnet, som af Lynet rørt,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXXXXaXXXXXXXXbXXXXXcXcXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXabXXX aXdXdXXdXddXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,27,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011111010 11011101 111110110 01110011000 11110111110 1110111 11111111100 11101 11111100 1100111010 1111 01111011 01011 1101011101 11011011 01100111011 1100111 1111100111 1011110110 1110111 111101 1101111 10110101 1111111111 1111111 1001111101 1111010101 11110111 1111111111 111110111 10111011111 101111 110010110 11100011110 1110101 11110010 111110111 1101100 1111100 11010111 10111010 11101110 10111011 1000110101 1001110010 101011111 111111111 111111110 1011111110 111111011 11111101 111000100 1100011111 1101100100 11010111 11111111 10110111 11111 11010000 1100111 011011111 01101100 1010101111 101101100 110111111101 110000101 1100000101 111100110 11101010 1111111011 111111001 1101111 1111011000 11110111 1111111110 111101110101 100011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1477
- Average number of words per stanza: 276
- Amount of lines: 77
- 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; og, r, du, med, flygte, omsonst, for, sidste, hvorhen are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words den, og, omsonst, med, paa, de, til, der are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r is repeated).
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- summary of De Himmelskes Afskedsbrev;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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