This is an analysis of the poem Tvungen Latter that begins with:

Her sender jeg Dig, kiære Ven, et Bind
Af Vers, som jeg har trukket ud og ind,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXXXbbXXcXXXXX XXXXXbXX XXXdXXXXeXXXcXXeXffXddXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,8,25,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010111111 1111110111 11010101 1111111011 1011011101 11111111 11110101 110111101 1110011 110110111 11111110010 110110111110 11011101110 1111001011 110011111 111111111 11011111011 11011101 1111010111 1101110111 1101000110 11111111 111111111110 1100010101 111111110 1100111000 1110111 1111100010 1101111 1101010111 11110011011 111111110 111111110011 11110 11001111111 011101101110 11001101100 1101 111111110 11111011 11110101000 11110111011 1000111001 10110001 1111 1111011 1101 1101 110110111 1100 1111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 621
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 51
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; jeg, og, den, af, det, til are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word og is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).

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  • summary of Tvungen Latter;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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