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

Caritane Falske smucke
Indbildt Kiønne Krambods ducke...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXX XXaXXX XXXXXa XXbXXb XXXccX XXaXXa XXXXX cXXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,5,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011 101101 1010111 11111010 1111010 1100101 010101 101101 110011 100101 111011 011111 10101110 1010110 1111001 1110111 0111101 100111 111110 11101100 1001101 11011110 1111010 1110111 1110111 11111 1101111 1011111110 11101110 1011111 1110111 1010011 111101 1011110 1110110 1011101 11100111 1111101 1111111111101 111111 11101101 10100110 11110110 1110 1010011 110111 1111100 1011101 11111 1011111 1010011 1110101 1011111 101110 1111001 1011011 1111111 111111 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
  • Average number of words per stanza: 34
  • Amount of lines: 59
  • 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; du, skal are repeated.

    The author used the same word naar 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 dsel, re are repeated).

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

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