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

Jeg havde ledt derom paa tusind Veie
Med ufortrøden Omhu, Flid, og Sveed,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX aXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX aXXa aXXX bXXb XXXc XXddc XXXX XXXX eXeX XXXX fdXX XXXX XXXX XggX XXXX cfXc XXc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111101101 110010111 1100110101 1101111001 111111111 1101111101 11111100 111101110 10111001 011010110 11101110 1111111101 1101111 11011011 1101011110 11101011 1100011110 1111111010 1110100010 111100100 111001111 111001101 1101101111 1101110101 11111011 10011111101 11110100 1001111101 11110101 1101101111 11010001 101000111 1000111101 11011011000 111110110 111010111 1111011010 111001111 110110011 1110011101 1111111 1100011110 111111111010 11011011110 110110011 0111110 010100100 110110001 1101101 011111110 1101010011 1001111 11111011111 11011011111 11101011 1111011101 11111101 111111110 110101111101 111110111 111001110 110110111 1101111010 11111101 1001010110 111111111 110111101011 1111111111 11010111 1111000101 1101110001 111011101 101110001 111110110 11101111 111110011 11111101110 111110110 1110011100 111011111 11110110 110110011 11001001 101101111 110110101101 11110111000 11010110 1011011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 22
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 88
  • 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; og, i, var, en, den, h, anden, ei, de, mit are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, min, til, en, du, og, ei are repeated.

    The author used the same word du 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 de, re, ie are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word havn at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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

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