This is an analysis of the poem Den Røde Lærke that begins with:

Nys jeg gik i den dybe Sne,
fik et skærende Syn at se: ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXX bXXXXX XcXX XXXd ccXX aXXXee ffXe ggggXf bbee aXccX XXXX aadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,4,4,4,6,4,6,4,5,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111111 1111111 1100111 111110 11101101 1110111 1011111 1110101 1111101 10110101 101100 10101101 1111101 10001111 1010111 111011 11101111 11110111 1011101 111111 10110111 10111101 1111111 10101100 111111 10110111 1011101 101111 1111111 1011111 111101 11101001 1011111 10111111 11111 1110101 10111111 111111 01101011 1110111 10101101 1011011 111111 1011111 101111011 101101111 10101100 1011101 11101101 10110 1001111 1001101 11100101 11111111 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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, d, steg, og, r are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Den Røde Lærke;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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