This is an analysis of the poem Til Pram that begins with:
O du, hvis muntre Smil, da jeg den første Gang
Dig saae, din hele Siæls Uskyldighed mig malte;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX Xbba XXXX XXXX cXXc XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XbbX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111 11111100011 11001100011 1111011111 11011111101 11101101000 111100100111 0110111111 1110110110 11111110001 1001110001 11111111101 1101111111 11011111111 111111100100 1011110111 1110110101 1101011111 11011111011 10011110111 10011110111 10010111011 11111011 11011111111 11011111001 111111100110 1100011111110 101101101110 11010111011 111111111 1111111011 11011111011 110111110111 1011011011 11010111001 1110011110 1101111110 1110111100 1110111101 110101110100 1111011111 1000111011 111101110111 111011110101 111101111111 1101111111101 1111110110110 11101011011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; mig, med, det, og, ven, en, jeg, min, mit are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words en, o are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ie, re are repeated).
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- summary of Til Pram;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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