This is an analysis of the poem Drømmeidealet that begins with:

Hele Formens rige Fylde
Tog jeg fangen og den samled'...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXX XXXaXXXa XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011 11101110 1111001 111111 10111 111111 1010011 101011 101111 111111 101111 1111101 10101110 111111 1111010 111101 1011010 1110111 111011 1111001 111101 111110 1010110 101101 1110011 11111110 111111 101111111 101111 11111110 1110111 11111111 110111 111111 1111100 1110111 111110 11111011 101111 111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; jeg, dr are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words til, al, l, og are repeated.

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

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