This is an analysis of the poem Drømmene that begins with:
Fortvivlelse! Dig helliges min Sang,
Og den, som hænger sig, og den, som hang,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XbXXbbaaXXXXXcddXXXXXeXbXX eXXXXXXXXXXfXfXXXX ggXXgXgXhXXXiXXidXd XXXXXaXXajXXjcXXXjXXXXbX XiXXXXhXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,26,18,19,24,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100110011 111111111 111111111 11 11011011 111001110110 1110101110 110111 11111101010 110101110 11111011 1110011 101101111 11101111 11011111111 1111110 11101 1101110101 110111100 111101111000 110101111000 11011111 1111110100 110111011 1101110111 111111111 11111101 1111 111111110 111 11111110 111011101 1111111 1111111111 1101110101 11111010 11001010 111011000 11111010010 1111111101 1111110110 11001010 1111110101 11110100 111101100 110111010 1110111110 11101111110 11111111 1111011011 11010011 1100111 1101110010 101100010 11101111111 11011101010 1001110101 110101110100 1101100111 1110011111 111101111 11111111 1110110111 11101111 11010111010 1111111000 111011110 110111100 111111111 111101 11101111 111010111 10110011101 1001100100 11110100 11010101 1110101010 1111111101 100111100 111101010 0101111 11110011 110111011 1100111111 111001101010 11110100 1111011101 1101011001 01110100110 111110110110 1100111100 1111101100110 11111 11010111100 1101010111 111101011 11001111 11011101 1111111101 11100011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
- Average number of words per stanza: 121
- Amount of lines: 100
- 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; den, og, h, som, en, han, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, hvis, som, naar, for are repeated.
The author used the same word den 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 re, s are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase dorine connects the lines.
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- summary of Drømmene;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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