This is an analysis of the poem Tidsfordriv that begins with:
Naar Solen vækker mig til Dagens Sysler,
Naar upaaklædt jeg sidder ved mit Bord,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX XXXX aXaX XXXX XXXX XbXb XXXX aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111010 11011011111 110110010 111010111 11101100110 110101000 1110100110 1100111101 1111010111 110111101 1101110101 1111100101 1101011000 1101110101 11000101000 110100111 111111100 110110010 11011111000 111001001 1101010110 1110111101 101011100 1101111011 111111110 11101101 1101111110 1111111 111100001 111011000 111111110 1100111111
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; paa is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words naar, og, hvor, hvis are repeated.
The author used the same word naar at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Tidsfordriv;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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