This is an analysis of the poem Det Første Haandtryk that begins with:
Nei! bort med Trøst! paa denne Jord
Vi kun har Aarsag til at græde;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXbXXXXXbcbXX XXXXcXXXXXXXXXXaXdXXXXXacXXXXbXXdXXXXXXcXcXXeXXeXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,52,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111 11110111 1011101 11000011 11011101 10011101 10110101 01010000 11111100 1101110 11001100 11110110 11010000 1110111 11001100 11110111 11010101 1111010 1101111 111111 11011101 0111111 1111111 111010 1111101 10101010 1111100 111010 11111101 1111110 11110101 11111110 101101 11111110 0110111 111010100 1110111 1101011111 11010001 11110111 101011 111111 1111100 1111011 111111111 10111111 110110 1011001 111001 11111110 11111111 11110110 1101100 10110111 110111000 11111101 111110 0101110 11110100 11111 101011 111110 11011100 11111000 1101101 1111110 111111 11111100 111111 110111 11001111 11110101 110111 1011101 11110111 10111 101111 0101101 111110 111111 11010001 111111 111111111 110111 111011 1111111 1111111 11010111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1441
- Average number of words per stanza: 265
- Amount of lines: 88
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
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; at, og are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words v, jeg, og are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines nke is repeated).
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- summary of Det Første Haandtryk;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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