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

O Du, som veed at dømme hver en Sag,
Saavel ved Hoffet, som i Staden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXaXbXXXXXXcc bXdXXXXXXXXe dXfXXdXXXdcXXX XXXXdXXXfX XXdXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXe XXXXfXXfXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,12,14,10,5,16,11,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101111111 101101110 1100110100 111101110 1011010111 111110110100 1111101110 1011110110 110001111100 1011111 11110101 11111011110 1101010000 1101000101 11011110 10011101 111110111 1101111111 11010011 11101101 11010101 011001 10110011 111000111 111011 111101 111111101 111101 1111 10110101110 110101111110 111111011 110111111 11101101 111111 11110111 11111 1011 1110111101 11 110101111 10110111010 11011011110 1101011101 10111101100 11111111 11111000100 1110011000 11110111 11111101010 111 110011110110 111111 11111110111 10110111101 111011101010 11111000 111100100 110110110111 11110001 1100100011 11111110 111101111 1111011101 11111110 111000111 111110111 11111111 1101111111 1111 10111111 110111111001 11111011101 1110111110 11111111010 1101011111 1001111110 1011000101 1101010 111101110 111011000 1101111111 111111101 111001111100 110011111 110101110111 11101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 87
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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, i, som, maaskee, hvorfor, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words som, for, og are repeated.

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

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

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