This is an analysis of the poem Paa Hedens Høje that begins with:

Snart er du slettet ud, mit Barndomsland,
hvor Rylen pylred om sin simple Rede,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabb XbXXXX XcXXXX dedXXX XacafX XXXXXX XXXXbX XXeXXX XXXXgX XXXXXX XXXXXX aXXXhh XXaXXg XXXaXX XiXiee XXfXXX XXXXXa XXXXgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 100101111100 1101011101 110111111 110110101 100111111110 1111011010 1111110111 1001111010 11011111 1011010010 11111111010 1101111010 1111010011 11110100 111010100 1111001101 1100011101 111101011 1101011111 11111101 110101111 11011010 1111111110 110010110 1111111101 110101111 110111111111 11001111 01111111110 111111111110 10110011 1100100101 11001111 11011010 101111110 1101110110 110011100 111111011 11000110 11000110 1111111010 1111111101 1101111101 11111111010 100101110 1000111101 111101111 1101011101 110100010 1100111110 111001111 11110111000 111101111 0101011111 1111011100 100101011 1101000111 111011111 111111 1101111111 1111010101 1100011000 1101100100 111010110 111011001 111110101 11110111111 11111111 111001111101 11110110 1110110010 1110111010 111111011 1100010101 1111111 1111110111 1101111111 1101111101 11011111 1111110 11111110 1111011101 11010011100 11111110 11111100 11001111 1101111101 110111111 111110101 1101010101 110101111 110111100 1101011101 110111101 111111101 11101111 11111110011 1111010010 110111111 1111011111 111111011 111011111 1101110111 11111011 111111011 111101111 11111011 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 236
  • Average number of words per stanza: 46
  • Amount of lines: 108
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; og, det, hvor, ej, som, i, saa, hans are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hvor, og, som, saa, det, lad are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines de is repeated).

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  • summary of Paa Hedens Høje;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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