This is an analysis of the poem Vers For Prosa that begins with:

Min astronomiske, min kiøbenhavnske Ven,
Som lige langt fra Himmelen og Jorden,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXb XbXXXcc XXdeXXXX XXXXXXXXXX XXXdXbeXXXXXXffXXXXdXXcXcXcXXaXX XXXXXgXXXXXgXXgXXXXgXhXhfXgX fXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,8,10,32,28,5,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100011001 1111100110 11111101110 1110100110 10111111101 111111001 1001111100 11100110111 111011011 11011111 110011101 1111011111 11011101 110101110101 1110111000 111111001111 11010011 110011 110110111 111111100 10 010111110101 11111111111 11110111100 01111111100 111111100 11011100111 110111110111 100000011 110101111111 1101111111 010110010 1100110000 110000111 10101101 111111111 110111111 111100101 11101111 1101111001 010111100011 111011110 111011011 1011010101 11011101010 1110111010 111110011 111101111 11111110 1110010111 1111111101 111111111111 11010111101 110111110111 1111111101 110001111 1100110100 100111111 11111111 11111101110 111100111 11110111100 1100111110 1111110111 11010011 0111110111 1110 11010111010 111100101 11010111 1101101 110111001 1110111 111011000 11101101 1000 11111100111 10110010111 011001011000 11011000 1101110000 100111110 1101011001 111100111 11011101 110110111 101111111001 1111100110 11111100 1000111 1110101100 11111111110 1111110110 110111100010 1111101110 10110011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 546
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; og, fra, paa, er, det, d, som, vor, een, han, sig are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words vor, een, den are repeated.

    The author used the same word de at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Vers For Prosa;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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