Venskab Og Kiærlighed by Jens Baggesen: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Venskab Og Kiærlighed that begins with:

O du, som medsmilende leer,
Er jeg glad, og medlidende græder,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaXaXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011001 01111001 110111010 11111011 110110110 11100101 1111111 111111011 101101111 110001010 1111101 1101111 1100101111 1011001 1101111 111111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; med is repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word der at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of Venskab Og Kiærlighed;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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