This is an analysis of the poem Til Apollo that begins with:

Til nogle Himlen Septer gav og Krone,
Til andre Titler, Nøgler, Stjerner, Baand,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXabXXcXcXaXXbdXdeaeX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010101110 111101101 1101111101 111111001 1111111111 1111101111 110101011 111111001 1111011000 111010111 1101100110 11010100 1101010101 1111110111 111011111 111110101 110111110 1011111 111110110 11111100 110101110 110111101 1110101010 1101011101 111111101 110011101 110111111 1101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1147
  • Average number of words per stanza: 216
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; hin, og, mig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words til, hin, naar are repeated.

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  • summary of Til Apollo;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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