This is an analysis of the poem Sprog-Smørrebrød that begins with:

O Du, som, deelende den Fred,
Vort kolde Nord oplives ved,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXXbXX bXXXXccddXXXXXXXd XXXXXXXXXXa XXbXXXXX XXXXaXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,17,11,8,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011011 1111001 111111110001 1100010100 0111011000 11001000 1100111101 11010111010 111110001 1001011101 11100111 10011111 1101111 111101001 11010011101 10110001 11111110101 1101111 111101001 101100110 1101111100 11011110 10011101 1001001011 11001111111 11011111 01101111 110101100 111100111 11011001 11111111011100 1111111111 1101111 1101110111 11111001 110110111 11111100100 1111110010 110111101 1100110111 10101100 1100111000 1111 1101010011 1110101110 1110 111111 1111010111 01111011 0111110111 11000100 11101101 111111110101 1111111 1101110101 1100 1111111 1101100 1111110110 1111001111 111 1110 11011111 11010011110 111111101010 11111100010 11000111 110111001 10111111011 1110111 11111101 110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 522
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • 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; i, saa, er, man are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Sprog-Smørrebrød;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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