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

Hvilken salig Glands mit Blik omhyller?
Fløi min Siel bag Solen i en Slum?...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXXa XXXbXXXX XcXcXXXc XXXXXXXX dXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XcecXXXX dXXXXXXX XXbXXXXX XXXXXXeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101011111100 111110111 11111100 10110100 011010010 111111 11110010 11111101 1011100 11111110 110011110 11100011 1111110 10101100 1111100100 101011011 01101001 11111101 101111101 10011111 1100100100 111011101 1110101100 1111011 11101010 1111101 10111110 11111011 11111110 1111111 1111011110 111110110 111010110 101101111 1111110 101101100 11011011111 110111101 111111 10111001 11101101 1111111 11110101 1100101 111011110 1101111 10110111 11111001 111001 1110101 111111101 110111001 1101001 10110101 011010111 11101111 11110110 101011101 1110111010 10111011 111110011 111011101 1111111101 11010101 1110111 1111111 11111111 1111101 1111101010 1111101 11111110 11101110 110111110 1101111 11001001 11110011 11111111 101111101 11111011 11011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 281
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; det, der, og, til, i, som are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Landforvandlingen;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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