This is an analysis of the poem Trolleborg that begins with:
Hvor var du, glade Siel! hvor endte sig
Den lange Rad af kummerfulde Dage?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaX XXXX XbcX aXaX XbcX XXXX XXXX XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11111001 1111101 1011010010 11011111 1111011100 1011010101 1101110100 10110011 1101111110 110111101 11110010 111100111 110111001 11101111 1110011110 11110011 1101101110 110111111 11011110 111010101 1101010100 11110100 101111101 111111111 1110111111 111101111 11111111 1111011101 11100110000 110111111 110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hvis, du, hvad, jeg, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvis, jeg are repeated.
The author used the same words hvor, jeg at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Trolleborg;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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