This is an analysis of the poem Hedelandet that begins with:
Du sære Land,
du mørke Land,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXX XXXXXX XXbbXX aaXcXc aXXXaa XXXXaX XaXXXa XXXdXX XXXXXX dXXXcX aXXXXX XaXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011 011 11001100 111 1100 1111111 111 1101 110011 1111 1100 11011111 1100 111 11110101 1101 111 11111101 1101 1101 11111110 1111 110 0111011 1101 1101 11001111 1101 1101 111111 1111 1111 1100101 1101 1101 11011110 111 1011 11111111 1111 1101 11111111 1101 1101 1101111 110 1101 1100010 1101 1111 11110111 1101 1111 1111111 1100 1011 11011101 1101 1101 1111101 111 111 1111101 1101 1111 11111101 101 1101 1101100 1101 111 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; n, i, bt are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words du, med, et, din, og, i are repeated.
The author used the same word din 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 land, n, j, rk, r, bt are repeated).
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Hedelandet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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