This is an analysis of the poem Extra-Nutiden that begins with:

Hvor er dog hos os ordentlige Danske
Alt blevet nu saa overordentligt,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXbXbXXXXXXXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXcX XXXXXXXcXXXXXdXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,17,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111001 1101110000 11011011 110111111 11011110000 111000011 111001100 111110101 11000101110 1101000101 1111111100 1101010100 1100010111 1100110001 10111010010 1111101111 11010011100 110111010 1101010101 1111111111 11110101110 1101111111 1111011100 1110000101 1101100111 1101010111 11011111 111111111101 1110110011 11110011 11001111 110011101 1111100100 111111101 11111111010 111110111 1011011101 101011111 1101110101 1001011111 11000111 11111011 1101010111 110101111 1100110010 1111110110 1111010100 11010111 110111100 1111111101 10001101 1101011101 01011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1083
  • Average number of words per stanza: 196
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; vor, man, i, vil, et, r, extra are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word vor is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines r, ring are repeated).

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  • summary of Extra-Nutiden;
  • central theme;
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