This is an analysis of the poem Tausheden that begins with:
Du klager, at jeg skriver alt for lidt
Paa nogen Tid, især til Norden;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXaXbXXXXXXXXcXXXX XXXXdXdXXXXXXX XXXXcaXXcXX XeeXXXXXbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,14,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101110111 11011110 11110111 1110111010 11111101110 111011111 11111111101 1111101 111110100 101110100 1101011101 111001111001 1111010111 11100110101 11010111101 1101110 11001011 111111 111011111 111 111111001 0111111111111 1111110111 1110011111 111111011 1101011011 110111111 1111110111 110001111 100101110 110010010 110111 11101110111 1111110 1001111111 11111110111 1111110111 111101011110 1111110 0111111 11011101 110111111 1110101010 011011000 11111111 111111110 11111111 1111110011 10111011 111 111 1111111110 1111 1101111011 110001111 01111111110
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
- Average number of words per stanza: 107
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; at, og, for, som, i, jeg, f, mig are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words og, det are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ier is repeated).
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- summary of Tausheden;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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